Free Post online communities Trump, QAnon and the limits of the “viral” metaphor to describe online communities Deplatforming Trump and QAnon won’t kill the movement. But it might just stop it growing as fast.
Free Post business models Catch-up Digital Digest #1: revenue, vaccines and more Welcome to the 2021. Let's catch-up. Or try to, at least.
Free Post analytics On engagement metrics and Facebook malignancy Today's thesis: engagement metrics are unfairly maligned, but Facebook deserves every piece of criticism thrown at it.
Free Post coronavirus pandemic Covid-19, schools, and the dangers of unintentional misinformation Not all misinformation is intentional. Sometimes the angle we take on a story, and the headline we use, can leave completely the wrong impression in a reader's mind.
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 social media journalism Journalists on social media: there's no easy answers on how they should behave Yes, there are problems with how journalists behave on social media. But the solutions are unlikely to be straightforward.
Free Post social & digital lunchbreak The misinformation war is still an asymmetric one In the quest for people's beliefs, a thousand little lies are more powerful than a single big truth.
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 engaged reading digest Engaged Reading Digest: Google fights misinformation with $$$$ Google fights back against Covid-19 misinformation, YouTube prepares its TikTok clone and the click frauders gear up…
Free Post information ecosystems Depolluting the information ecosystem Thanks to the internet, our information ecosystem is bigger than ever — but it is becoming polluted and may already be toxic. How do we become the solution, not part of the problem?
Free Post politics Three questions about the UK's journalism landscape after the General Election result A major shift in the political landscape of the UK raises some critical questions about the role of truth and journalism in the social media mindscape.
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 machine learning Deepfakes aren't the problem yet - their existence is The mere existence of deepfakes is undermining our sense of reality and truth
Free Post community management Engaged journalism, membership models and communities under attack: important new research from the Reuters Institute By deeply researching the audience engagement of three news outlets under sustained assault by hostile organisations, Dr Julie Posetti and team have come up with some vital work
Free Post paywalls Paywalls promote misinformation If all high-quality news becomes paywalled - what will fill the void left behind?
