Free Post facebook Facebook is an accelerator of our toxic times, not its cause Facebook has merely harnessed and amplified the networks already at work online. Blaming the symptom for the problem is no route to a solution.
Free Post social media Abuse, arrogant tech VCs and hypocrisy everywhere. It's time for the weekend, folks. The tech VC community shows its true face, social media gets toxic and… Oh, can we just have a break, please?
Free Post facebook Social & Digital Lunchbreak: Facebook doesn't care, the spawn of news and conspiracies - and two vital jobs Your lunchtime digest of social and digital news, reminding us of Facebook's indifference, and the impact of Covid-19 on what is important reporting right now…
Free Post politics Social & Digital lunchbreak: inflection points in politics and subscriptions Lots of simmering tensions in politics and social media are coming to a head. Interesting timing…
Free Post content moderation Coronavirus: the social media moderation problem explained As the social platforms empty their offices of staff, content moderation is taking a serious hit. Here's why.
Free Post facebook Coronavirus: Facebook is becoming an unreliable source of traffic As content moderators are sent home, AI tools are taking over their content policing job - and getting it wrong.
Free Post engaged reading digest Engaged Reading Digest: Content is collapsing, TikTok is toxifying and a secret(ish) tool Another week, and more news from around the web for engaged journalists…
Free Post misinformation Election Watch 2019 #1: Lies, Leaks and Dead Squirrels Connecting up some of the reporting about the use of misinformation and propaganda during the 2019 UK general election.
Free Post engaged reading digest Engaged Reading Digest: Deepfakes, YouTube controversy and better analytics through complexity Five links on engaged journalism to see you through the morning coffee break
Free Post privacy We'll regret surrendering our ambient privacy You don't know what you've got til it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a Facebook lot.
Free Post facebook Dad, the Facebook addict A short documentary about a Dad well and truly hooked on Facebook.
Free Post hacks/hackers Hacks/Hackers London: AI, Fact-checking, a faster Economist — and better careers for women May's Hacks/Hackers brought us AMP-based web-design, Facebook fact-checking, AI email checks, and a new organisation to support women in their careers.
Free Post facebook What would happen if journalists got the hell off Facebook? Mathew Ingram wrote a typically interesting and provocative post last week, asking if the news industry should just get the hell off of Facebook. Are the benefits we accrue, diminishing
Free Post hacks/hackers Hacks/Hackers London: News for millennial investors, engaged journalism and data leakage to Facebook Three talks from the April 2019 Hacks/Hackers London, from Finimize, the Engaged Journalism Accelerator and Privacy International
Free Post facebook How the Brexit votes of a Welsh town turned Carole Cadwalladr into an investigative journalist An inspiring - and fascinating - talk into how a simple feature put the Observer journalist on the trail of the biggest Facebook scandal.
