Telegram has became the most successful social media app in Russia, Ukraine, Balkan countries either
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With X, formerly known as Twitter, hitting the one-year anniversary of Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the social media platform, it can feel disorienting to try to make sense of all that’s gone down. Blue-check verifications got hawked. Internal company documents about content moderation policies got laundered. A puzzling rebrand to “X” got hatched....
Twitch has just added stories as a brand-new feature to their platform and this article
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X’s new ‘Not-A-Bot’ feature threatens to make disinformation and bots more prevalent on the site,
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This story originally ran at El Tímpano. Like a virus, misinformation spreads by individual actions. Sharing a post on WhatsApp or Facebook, repeating a rumor in conversation with relatives or colleagues: These individual decisions have ripple effects through social circles, workplaces, and entire communities. So when El Tímpano launched a disinformation defense initiative two years...
For the Recode Media podcast, Peter Kafka did a worthwhile interview with The Washington Post’s Douglas Jehl about running a major news operation in a conflict zone and getting the story right in the fog of war. Jehl oversees The Washington Post’s coverage outside the United States as its international editor. He’s been in that...
Ira Glass, host and creator of This American Life, was speaking about excellence and innovation in public radio at the 2023 Content Conference late last month. “A puzzle for a lot of public radio is how to do TikTok well — and get a real audience,” Glass said. His team had solicited submissions. “The only...
Meta’s move away from news doesn’t just affect your Facebook feed. It’s also shaping the growth plans of journalism organizations that once counted on the platform’s funding. Earlier this month, LION Publishers — the association for local independent online news publishers, which counts more than 475 member organizations in the U.S. and Canada and 14 full-time...
YouTube has introduced a new watch page to help users get information from “authoritative” news sources — especially in times of “elections, unrest, and natural disasters.” The new news watch page isn’t curated by a human editor. Like the platform’s search results, the content is “algorithmically generated and dynamic,” YouTube spokesperson Elena Hernandez confirmed. The...
Violence fueled by fake news was Peace Oladipo‘s biggest concern during the Nigerian general election this past February. She knew that political parties’ weaponization of disinformation during the 2019 election had contributed to 150 deaths. To do what she could as a freelance journalist, Oladipo shared fact-checks done by the Nigeria Factcheckers Coalition (NFC), a...
Were you thinking about the applications of artificial intelligence to news in the summer of 2021? To be clear, we’re talking more than a year before ChatGPT zapped the entire internet into a new level of awareness about the tech’s potential. I, for one, wasn’t, and I’ll wager a guess that if you, like me,...
Given the amount of attention TikTok has swallowed up from anyone under the age of 30, we might expect it to be a more obsessive focus of news organizations in their efforts to attract younger and more engaged audiences. But TikTok has shown itself to be rather inhospitable to news: It removes links that publishers could use to pull...
Public trust in U.S. institutions has fallen to disconcertingly low levels. Journalists, doctors, scientists, and academics — once perceived as professionals with valuable training and skills who had the public’s best interest in mind — now tend to be seen as disconnected and politically compromised elites. The crisis of public trust raises important questions. Why has...
U.S. news organizations and the public often clash over the role the media should play in society, but many reporters, editors,. and news consumers view journalists as watchdogs — especially when it comes to holding elected officials accountable. A recent paper published in The International Journal of Press/Politics is among the first to explore associations between...
When Elon Musk first announced that he would be removing headlines from links on TAFKA Twitter, he gave a simple if insane reason: It would “greatly improve the esthetics.” This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 22, 2023 (An aside: Many news outlets treated his spelling...
The saga of how Elon Musk has undermined news on X (RIP Twitter) in the year since his chaotic evil takeover of the company is a long one. Swapping verification for pay-to-play system Twitter Blue1 ; labeling NPR “state-affiliated media”; and throttling the (already-limited) flow of traffic to news websites from links posted on the...
What counts as clickbait? Merriam-Webster’s definition is “something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest.” Keep that in mind as you browse some of the top headlines on The Messenger’s homepage this morning: “Ed Sheeran Says...