TikTok
Weaning media off its social addiction
Kicking the social media traffic fix, plus links on the tricks of pseudoscience and the future of media.
china
Isabel Hilton: what the UK can learn from China's Discourse War
Isabel Hilton's James Cameron memorial lecture at City's journalism department challenged journalists to rise to the challenge of a global information war
internet research agency
Russiaās trolling operations are effective, but not sophisticated
Russiaās Troll Operation Was Not That Sophisticated [https://medium.com/the-atlantic/russias-troll-operation-was-not-that-sophisticated-39111b4f1ce4] : > The Russians tracked how well what they were posting was connecting with people. āIn order to gauge the performance of various groups on social media sites, the ORGANIZATION tracked certain metrics like the groupās size,
fake news
Social platforms: perfect propaganda delivery tools
This post by JP Rangaswami resonated with me, because it summed up one of the areas digital seems to have gone wrong [http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2017/10/30/on-platforms-and-sustainability/]: > So is that it? Back to seats and eyeballs, channelled not connected, āaudiencesā sucking up linear ācontentā? Back to a
claire wardle
Defining the real forms of Fake News
The lovely, lovely First Draft Coalition [https://firstdraftnews.com] has been doing some excellent work in unpicking the roots of the real āFake Newsā, before that phrase got co-opted [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2017/02/fake-fake-news.html]. In particular, research director Claire Wardle has expended on work by Elliot
bloggers
Trump administration cosies up to client media
Ah, Media Twitter is all aflutter with this news from the New York Times: > The Gateway Pundit, a provocative conservative blog, gained notice last year for its fervent pro-Trump coverage and its penchant for promoting false rumors about voter fraud and Hillary Clintonās health that rocketed around right-wing
fake news
How the alt-right media machine stole the "Fake News" tag
This really is a mark of just how efficient and savvy the media machine around Trump is [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-time-to-retire-the-tainted-term-fake-news/2017/01/06/a5a7516c-d375-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html] : > But though the term [Fake News] hasnāt been around long, its meaning already is lost. Faster than you
fake news
Fake news is just the tip of the propaganda iceberg
Fake news is Facebookās problem, right? Well, maybe itās a touch bigger than that. Maybe Google has the problem, too [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook] : > Are Jews evil? Itās not a question Iāve ever thought of asking. I hadnāt gone
ISIS
ISIS: waging war on social media
Inside the Islamic State propaganda machine [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-the-islamic-states-propaganda-machine/2015/11/20/051e997a-8ce6-11e5-acff-673ae92ddd2b_story.html] : > Senior media operatives are treated as āemirsā of equal rank to their military counterparts. They are directly involved in decisions on strategy and territory. They preside over hundreds of videographers,
Journalism
Life in the Kremlin's troll farm
Some fascinating reporting on Russia's misinformation operations, and how they aim to influence electionsā¦