social media verification
Engaged Reading Digest: image verification, cops on TikTok — and why celebs are using a social platform you've never heard of Paid 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
The first Engaged Reading Digest of 2020 Paid Members Public
Some great links to start your year.
Deepfakes aren't the problem yet - their existence is Paid Members Public
The mere existence of deepfakes is undermining our sense of reality and truth
Messy verification process leave blue ticks open to abuse Paid 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
Social media verification: still a crapshoot Paid 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
The Momo Challenge: a press-driven panic over a non-existent threat Paid Members Public
The Momo Challenge has been all over the internet - and the papers. Only one small problem: it doesn't exist.
The critical need for verification skills in modern journalism education Paid Members Public
A talk by the BBC's Mark Frankel reinforced the critical need for more verification skills in modern newsrooms
The Guardian catches Storyful tracking what videos journalists are watching Paid Members Public
Storyful has been running an internal feed of all the videos clients using its Chrome extension watch. Is this malice or incompetence?
