engaged reading digest
Engaged Reading Digest: Google fights misinformation with $$$$
Google fights back against Covid-19 misinformation, YouTube prepares its TikTok clone and the click frauders gear up…
content moderation
Coronavirus: the social media moderation problem explained
As the social platforms empty their offices of staff, content moderation is taking a serious hit. Here's why.
X (Twitter)
Engaged Reading Digest: engaging ethically and slaying trolls
The best of the web on engaged journalism ethics, troll fighting and mentorships.
engaged reading digest
Engaged Reading Digest: Radicalisation, Copyright and Piers
Get ready for another week at the journalism coalface with some essential weekend reading…
news impact summit
ClimateAdam: Humanising the Climate Crisis story
Adam Levy is a science journalist who has turned to YouTube to tell the climate crisis story. Here’s why.
influencers
How did creators become influencers?
How did YouTube's "creators" become Instagram's "influencers" — and what does the dinstinction signify?
livestreaming
After Christchurch: how do we curtail the spread of video from atrocities?
The Christchurch attack was a terrorist event for the social media age. We need to address this situation on multiple levels to minimise the harm done.
media
WSJ busts prominent YouTuber PewDiePie for anti-semitic content
A prominent YouTuber has lost a lucrative contract [https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-severs-ties-with-youtube-star-pewdiepie-after-anti-semitic-posts-1487034533] : > Since August, PewDiePie has posted nine videos that include anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery, according to a review of his channel by The Wall Street Journal . On Monday after the Journal contacted Disney about the
social media celebs
This is why I don't do YouTube
blogosphere
Life in the YouTube celeb bubble
Blogosphere's lead interview gives us an insight into life inside the influencer bubble - and how the Mail views it, too…
facebook video
YouTube woos creators with social network features
People often think of YouTube as social media, but it’s never really been a social network. Sure you could subscribe to a creator’s channel, but it was a very one-way, broadcast relationship. That might be changing – a little – with the launch of YouTube Community [https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/
creativity
Social media sanity checks the Rogue One way
It’s not hard to find this adorable: Yes, it’s the CGI team from Industrial Light & Magic, watching reaction videos to the [trailer for *Rogue One*](http://www.starwars.com/video/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-official-teaser-trailer), the forthcoming *Star Wars* movie.In a month where we’ve seen so damn many examples