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Can Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales fix the news?
Can Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales fix the news? Traditional media is broken, the tech entrepreneur says. But will his new reader-funded service be any better? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales stands in the doorway to his office Friday, Dec. 1, 2006 in St. Petersburg, Fla. — AP Photo/Steve Nesius Jimmy Wales has already triggered one global information revolution. Now he is […]
Fake News: Defining and Defeating
Fake News: Defining and Defeating Real techniques for identifying fake news and disinformation Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to present his media critics with so-called “fake news awards,” it is more important than ever to define what “fake news” actually is, and what it is not. President Trump’s repeated accusations of fake news are […]
Facebook Will Trust Its Untrustworthy Users to Rank the Trustworthiness of News
Photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images FACEBOOK WILL TRUST ITS UNTRUSTWORTHY USERS TO RANK THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF NEWS FACEBOOK USERS, BY and large, are not very good at differentiating between what’s fact and what’s false. Many users will eagerly share both reliable news and the fake stuff without any hesitation. It happens because users either want the falsehoods […]
There’s No ‘Fake News’ In Holland?
There’s No ‘Fake News’ In Holland? Following President Trump’s ‘Fake News’ Olympics this week, we wondered just how widespread the belief in the inaccuracy of the news worldwide really is. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, the growing phenomenon of fake news has exacerbated fractured attitudes on the accuracy of the news media, especially on matters such […]
Media Lies About Fake News
Media Lies About Fake News A major new Gallup report that was issued on January 16th headlined “American Views: Trust, Media and Democracy” (it’s issued in conjunction with the Knight Foundation) and it finds that “Internet-only news websites” are the least-trusted of all newsmedia. 54% trusted “Your local newspaper.” 52% trusted “National network news.” 51% […]
Can Fake News Be Outlawed?
PHILIPPE WOJAZER/AFP/Getty Images Can Fake News Be Outlawed? French President Emmanuel Macron used the occasion of an annual New Year’s press conference this year to propose a new law to prevent the spread of disinformation online. But even if France’s restrictions work as intended, fake news is a global problem, and it will require […]
The Real News We Ignore at Our Peril
The Real News We Ignore at Our Peril This is the threat to our democracy, not Fake News. And Exhibit A is our failed war in Afghanistan As defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld used to entertain (and befuddle) reporters with his song-and-dance about Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns. This last category—“things we don’t know […]
Facebook Introducing Sweeping Changes: Will Prioritze Only “Trustworthy” News
Facebook Introducing Sweeping Changes: Will Prioritze Only “Trustworthy” News In the latest move that is set to infuriate news organizations that are not deemed “trustworthy”, Facebook is set to introduce “sweeping changes” to its newsfeed as early as next week, prioritizing trustworthy sites and removing “clickbait” and low quality news publishers, while promoting posts from […]
Blowout Week 210
Blowout Week 210 Is the US about to become the world’s largest oil producer? Our feature story says yes. To follow we have Trump’s offshore leasing program; record Russian gas production; Saudi Arabia’s gasoline price hike; Germany shuts down a nuclear reactor; Australia’s industry to power down during heatwave; Coal growth in Asia; the Snowy […]
CNN & MSNBC Attempt Coverup of Bogus Story They Started
CNN & MSNBC Attempt Coverup of Bogus Story They Started CNN & MSNBC refuse to provide any transparency on how they blew a major anti-trump story. The headline image is from the BBC story Russia-Trump: Who’s who in the drama to end all dramas? The BBC names the key players, but it missed one: the […]
Spanking the Monkey
Spanking the Monkey The hysteria manufacturing business formerly known as the news media is enjoying multiple orgasms this morning in the outing of notoriously vulgar comedian Louis CK for exactly the sort of vulgar behavior offstage that he riffed about onstage. What a surprise. We also learn today that Jeremy Piven, beloved and admired for […]
Does Russia Produce ‘Fake News’? Or Does America? Or Both?
Does Russia Produce ‘Fake News’? Or Does America? Or Both? The biggest difference between American and Russian news-reporting has been a simple factual issue between the two sides, on what incident started the ‘New Cold War’ between the U.S. and Russia. (The original Cold War was between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and had […]
The truth will not be Googled
The truth will not be Googled Google has come under scrutiny by free-speech organisations for shutting down neo-Nazi website, Daily Stormer, seemingly too distracted to notice the tech giant has been waging a censorship campaign against progressive news organisations that publish content which conflicts with the narrative of the Washington establishment, along with Facebook and […]
