social media verification

Engaged Reading Digest: image verification, cops on TikTok — and why celebs are using a social platform you've never heard of Members Public

It's easy to get sucked into the idea that social media is mainly a promotional tool. Today's digest is a reminder that it's much more than that — for good and ill

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engaged reading digest

The first Engaged Reading Digest of 2020 Members Public

Some great links to start your year.

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Adam Tinworth
engaged reading digest

Deepfakes aren't the problem yet - their existence is Members Public

The mere existence of deepfakes is undermining our sense of reality and truth

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Adam Tinworth
machine learning

Messy verification process leave blue ticks open to abuse Members Public

Social media account verification continues to suck. Surprise. Taylor Lorenz [https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/instagram-and-twitter-should-eliminate-verification/592351/?utm_campaign=Big Revolution&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue newsletter]: > All this has led to a glut of mid-tier celebrities, sports stars, and moderately known people across a wide

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social media verification

Social media verification: still a crapshoot Members Public

The opaque and unpredictable routes to verified status on social media, make it a desirable status symbol, and a distorting influence on social interactions

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verification

The Momo Challenge: a press-driven panic over a non-existent threat Members Public

The Momo Challenge has been all over the internet - and the papers. Only one small problem: it doesn't exist.

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misinformation

The critical need for verification skills in modern journalism education Members Public

A talk by the BBC's Mark Frankel reinforced the critical need for more verification skills in modern newsrooms

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social media verification

The Guardian catches Storyful tracking what videos journalists are watching Members Public

Storyful has been running an internal feed of all the videos clients using its Chrome extension watch. Is this malice or incompetence?

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Adam Tinworth
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