social media verification
2015's rich crop of viral fakes Paid Members Public
76 fake images that went viral this year [http://factually.gizmodo.com/76-viral-images-from-2015-that-were-totally-fake-1747317711] And this is why every journalist should be taught social media verification.
The "£500 pcm bed under the stairs" story is probably just marketing Paid Members Public
Want to know why social media verification skills are so important? Well, take a look at this tweet, which has been the basis for dozens of stories in the media this morning: https://twitter.com/alex_lomax/status/649146213242175488 Crazy, huh? But what happens if you start looking into the
"Twitter is our competition" Paid Members Public
> “Twitter is our competition, we have faced up to that reality,” said Matt McAllester, Europe editor at Time. That’s a controversial start to a nice piece from Abigail at journalism.co.uk, from a Web Summit panel on journalism and social media [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/
De Rosa and the social media misinformation problem Paid Members Public
Interesting interview with Anthony De Rosa [http://www.wework.com/magazine/inspiration/journey-worth-following-anthony-de-rosa-climb-from-tumblr-to-circa-editor/] : > Through live blogging, De Rosa says he began to learn the value of information verification. Social media poses an increasingly large problem in the spreading of false or inaccurate information. Especially in times of breaking news,
The fall of MH17, told through social media Paid Members Public
Fascinating account from Storyful about their social media verification work around the downing of flight MH17 [http://blog.storyful.com/2014/07/19/how-social-sleuthing-uncovered-evidence-of-anti-aircraft-missile-system-in-eastern-ukraine/] : > In the aftermath of the attack, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal affairs released the video below, described as showing a ‘Buk’ anti-aircraft missile system being
Verify social media content - or look like an idiot Paid Members Public
The above photo was circulating Twitter yesterday, and at least two media outlets – Romenesko [http://jimromenesko.com/2014/04/14/bbc-caption-writer-having-a-bad-day/] and FishbowlNY [http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/news-segment-features-extremely-accurate-caption_b210228] – ran it as an example of a BBC captioner having a bad day. They found the image and they ran
Slow journalism in a real time age Paid Members Public
James Harding on journalism today [http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/speeches/2014/james-harding-wt-stead.html]: > But these new formats are creating exciting competitors to the well-known 2 minute 15 item on a news bulletin or the 450 word article in a newspaper. Look at Now this News, which delivers
Social Media Verification is journalism's new frontier Paid Members Public
I missed this last week [http://newscorp.com/2013/12/20/news-corp-acquires-social-news-agency-storyful/] : > Accelerating News Corp’s digital transformation and video strategy, the company has acquired Storyful, the world’s first social news agency. Storyful, of course, are a brilliant lot, who have made the skill of verifying stories and
