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.
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…
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…
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?
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.
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.
machine learning
Deepfakes aren't the problem yet - their existence is
The mere existence of deepfakes is undermining our sense of reality and truth
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
paywalls
Paywalls promote misinformation
If all high-quality news becomes paywalled - what will fill the void left behind?
fake news
To beat "Fake News", look to… Finland?
Finland has been fighting Russian information warfare for over five years. What have they learnt?
X (Twitter)
Twitter bans voting misinformation
Twitter explicitly bans voter suppression tactics on its service.
misinformation
The Momo Challenge: a press-driven panic over a non-existent threat
The Momo Challenge has been all over the internet - and the papers. Only one small problem: it doesn't exist.