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15 votes
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A Black CNN reporter and his crew were arrested live on air at the Minneapolis protests
22 votes -
Cognitive ability and vulnerability to fake news
8 votes -
CNBC reporter makes fake news website with plagiarized content, gets approved by ad tech companies
10 votes -
Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content
6 votes -
Google announces a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund for local newsrooms
6 votes -
What happens when local news outlets don't exist?
12 votes -
Top story on Fox News right now: "His denial..... was deadly"
6 votes -
The Trump-Fox & Friends feedback loop explained
3 votes -
How asymmetrical polarization has changed American politics
9 votes -
Depression and my obsession with national news
corvid-19 has taken over my thinking. I haven't been this depressed in a very long time. Feels like I'm living in a sort of fog. I usually have national news on in the background during the day...
corvid-19 has taken over my thinking. I haven't been this depressed in a very long time. Feels like I'm living in a sort of fog. I usually have national news on in the background during the day but the coronavirus is taking over. I don't know if I contracted it. I have been in a funk the last 2 or so weeks. My temp reader (which i don't trust) says im 2 degrees below 97.6. I don't know, i just had to get this off my chest.
20 votes -
As the coronavirus slowdown hits newspapers, the Monterey County Weekly lays off seven employees
3 votes -
Your thoughts regarding the media coverage?
I skim-read multiple news aggregators daily, and for weeks now, every single day, 75% or more of the news is specifically about Covid-19. By comparison, it is worth reminding younger readers that...
I skim-read multiple news aggregators daily, and for weeks now, every single day, 75% or more of the news is specifically about Covid-19.
By comparison, it is worth reminding younger readers that we didn't even know about the Spanish Flu until ~30 years ago. During WWI, we (humans) suffered the deadliest pandemic of the modern era, and it took 60-70 years before anyone even noticed.
If you didn't grow up before the Spanish Flu became common knowledge, that may be a hard thing to grasp ... but during the late-80s and into the '90s, there was this slow, years-long trickle of news from medical researchers, historians and (FFS) archeologists (?!!?) about how there might actually have been a massive global pandemic during WWI that no one knew about.
Today in Wikipedia, there is just one little tidbit about how various things like (intentional) under-reporting and co-mingling of flu deaths with war casualties, led to it being nicknamed "the forgotten pandemic" ... which doesn't really capture that sense of "Holy Fuck"-ness when you discover that up to 100 million people died of the flu one year, and no one even noticed.
Okay ... at any rate .... you get my point. In 1919, the news intentionally under-reported it worldwide (except in Spain ... hence the name), in part to help prevent panic.
Today, the news media coverage is just incredible. Nothing on Earth happens any more, except Covid-19. A few thousand people die (I'm sorry, but yeah, more people die in car accidents), and the Media loses its mind.
OTOH, honestly, it's mostly been pretty good, accurate, up-to-the-second coverage (as best I can tell), really driving home the message of "we know it sounds lame, but wash your hands, dammit ... a lot", and etc.
So ... thoughts? This constant in-your-face media coverage ... good or bad? How much is media causing the panic vs just reporting on it?
17 votes -
Rupert Murdoch actually tried to stop Trump, and he won't try to again
7 votes -
How Fox News gets other cable news channels to push their stories
8 votes -
What do we actually know about modern disinformation?
This is an intentionally broad question with a lot of different angles. It's also a question that's naturally hard to get solid grounding on now that nearly everything gets painted as false,...
This is an intentionally broad question with a lot of different angles. It's also a question that's naturally hard to get solid grounding on now that nearly everything gets painted as false, misleading, or disingenuous by at least someone.
Normally in my ask threads I throw out a lot of potential talking points, but in this case I want to leave the question open, for people to take it in whichever direction they wish: What do we actually know about modern disinformation, especially related to (but not limited to) online spaces? What are some real, genuine takeaways we can hang our hats on?
Also, a point of clarity: disinformation here does NOT strictly refer to high-level government propaganda and can include something as low-level as, say, an influencer not disclosing product sponsorship to their followers. I'm interested in distributed falsehoods of any caliber.
21 votes -
Crunchyroll reveals first slate of "Crunchyroll Originals"
6 votes -
Andrew Yang joins CNN as political commentator
21 votes -
The 'this is fine' bias in cable news
10 votes -
McClatchy, second-largest local news company in the US, files for bankruptcy due to drop in print-based circulation and revenue along with massive pension obligations
10 votes -
Protocol, a new media company from the publisher of Politico, focusing on the people, power, and politics of technology
12 votes -
How Finland starts its fight against fake news in schools – country on frontline of information war teaches everyone from pupils to politicians how to spot slippery information
7 votes -
What happened to the news?
8 votes -
Given up sugar? Great, now it’s time to cut the news from your diet
26 votes -
Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
12 votes -
ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus has gifted books to high school students across Sweden to try to stem the flow of fake news
8 votes -
Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
11 votes -
CNN treats politics like a drama, and it's making us all less informed
35 votes -
Facebook includes Breitbart in new 'high quality' news tab
31 votes -
What are some good news outlets you would recommend?
Ideally without any paywall since I am a long way away from even being able to work.
23 votes -
An interview with the Ukrainians who created the "I Love America" Facebook page
10 votes -
Iceland makes the top of the list when it comes to online news consumption, a study conducted by the OECD revealed
5 votes -
Emily Atkin's summary of and thoughts about CNN's 7-hour Climate Crisis Town Hall
10 votes -
Jon Stewart rips Rand Paul's 'virtue signaling' in blocking 9/11 victim fund
10 votes -
Fox News didn't "steal" your parents
19 votes -
Right-wing publications launder an anti-journalist smear campaign
11 votes -
A state-of-the-art defense against neural fake news
6 votes -
‘Orphan counties,’ and a battle over what local news really means
4 votes -
Facebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked but declines to delete it
22 votes -
Should a Colorado library publish local news?
11 votes -
“We’re drinking now”: The oldest newspaper in New Orleans just fired its entire staff
11 votes -
How the media launders fossil fuel propaganda through branded content
10 votes -
'I hate what they’ve done to almost everyone in my family' (An article about Fox News poisoning.)
36 votes -
How Lachlan Murdoch went from studying philosophy at Princeton to exploiting white nationalism at Fox News
5 votes -
Crazy idea to help stop the spreading of untruthful news
One of the main issues with news on social media is the spread of fake or false news. This happens on every platform that allows sharing news. If Tildes continues to gain popularity, this will...
One of the main issues with news on social media is the spread of fake or false news. This happens on every platform that allows sharing news. If Tildes continues to gain popularity, this will likely happen on Tildes. I had an Idea: what if tildes had a group of fact checkers that check to see if the news is truthful, and block posts that link to untrustworthy new sites? could be like a 3 strikes thing, where if a new source has 3 articles posted that have misinformation, they would be blocked (the post also removed).
This is just an idea, feel free to highlight any issues with it.
10 votes -
[David Matheson, the Mormon] ‘Gay conversion therapist’ comes out: Exclusive interview [to Channel 4]
8 votes -
Why your newsfeed sucks
5 votes -
The cigarette company that reinvented television news
3 votes -
The eerie absence of viral fakes after the New Zealand mosque attacks
12 votes -
How the American media fuels a cycle of violence
3 votes