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.
Politics
Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
Journalism
The dangers of under-estimating complexity
Research shows that climate skepticism comes from a distinct part of the political spectrum. But is journalism making those same connections?
chat apps
Engaged Reading Digest: a changing language, unfluencers and dodging state surveillance
Some interesting reading on how the internet is changing language, reverse influencer psychology and apps in pretests.
Politics
Prorogue — or prorogation?
Applying Google Trends to today's big political news…
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.
X (Twitter)
Guilt by Twitter association — how Labour Left Voice blocked swathes of Twitter
One Corbynite Twitter account has been blocking great swathes of Twitter - and thus created a manual filter bubble.
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 though they are, worth the price we, and society as a whole, are paying [https://www.cjr.org/the_new_
comicsgate
Right-wing activists are using Twitter's trans policies to silence their critics
The next wave of online tactics used by the alt-right are being deployed, right now, in the world of comics. How long before they hit the mainstream?
X (Twitter)
Twitter bans voting misinformation
Twitter explicitly bans voter suppression tactics on its service.
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.
julian assange
As Julian Assange is arrested, the questions posed by Wikileaks remain as pressing as ever
Julian Assange has been dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy under arrest. Whatever happens to him, the impact of Wikileaks on journalism and politics will continue to be felt for years.
Facebook speeds up assimilation of WhatsApp and Instagram
Looks like a handy way of fending off the regulators and avoiding a break-up.