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Digital News Report 2018: traffic from — and trust in — social media on the decline
The new Digital News Report is out - and things are looking grim in the intersection of social media and news. Here's a couple of preliminary observations.
Understanding the meme
Abby Rabinowitz, writing for Nautilus about memes: But trawling the Internet, I found a strange paradox: While memes were everywhere, serious meme theory was almost nowhere. Richard Dawkins, the famous evolutionary biologist who coined the word “meme” in his classic…
Quote of the Day
Social media first undermined the media’s and institutions’ credibility, and now their own. Peter Bihr…
Russia’s trolling operations are effective, but not sophisticated
Russia’s Troll Operation Was Not That Sophisticated: The Russians tracked how well what they were posting was connecting with people. “In order to gauge the performance of various groups on social media sites, the ORGANIZATION tracked certain metrics like…