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The Boston Globe is starting a new program by which people who feel an article at the newspaper is harmful to their reputation can ask that it be updated or anonymized. From a report: It’s reminiscent of the E.U.’s “right to be forgotten,” though poten… Continue reading Boston Globe Will Consider People’s Requests To Have Articles About Them Anonymized
“This is the perfect moment to do this. This is an age of conspiracies for boomers… Let’s kindle their mistrust in Snopes and other fact checkers,” wrote one 4chan poster.
Snopes.com later reported:
In October 2020, a series of threads was posted t… Continue reading Snopes.com Exposes 4chan Campaign to ‘Kindle Mistrust in Snopes’
This week London’s prestigious Financial Times published a 15-minute video investigating the question: “Is QAnon a game gone wrong?”
In 2017, the Q team, whoever they may be, made use of the modern equivalent of the Playboy’s letters page. It’s a mess… Continue reading Is QAnon an 8Chan Game Gone Wrong?
Slashdot reader destinyland writes: On April 7th, a Trump campaign advisor told the Los Angeles Times “One way we still win this election is by turning it into a referendum on China.” Within weeks the Washington Post noted “reports that the Trump admin… Continue reading Full Text of US State Department Cables Finally Released, Showing Safety In Chinese Lab
The growth of partisan media masquerading as state and local reporting is a troubling trend we’ve seen emerge amid the financial declines of local news organizations. But what do these outlets mean for journalism in American communities? NiemanLab: Usi… Continue reading Hundreds of Hyperpartisan Sites Are Masquerading as Local News
Long-time Slashdot reader stikves reminded us that a committee in the U.S. Senate passed an amended version of the “EARN IT” act on Thursday. And this new version could do more than just end personal end-to-end encryption, warns Engadget:
The other ma… Continue reading US Senate Amends EARN IT Act — To Let States Restrict Encryption
schwit1 shares a report: Free press advocates have created a virtual library in Minecraft that bypasses censorship in oppressive countries to house censored journals and articles. The virtual space was created as a collaboration between the freedom-of-… Continue reading Minecraft Is Now Home To a Virtual Library of Censored Journalism
If our social platforms are going to be gatekeepers, then they need to acknowledge their role in the information ecosystems. It is knowing what to boost and what to ignore that makes a good platform, writes veteran technology journalist and now a ventu… Continue reading The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (of Technology)
The New York Times will no longer use 3rd-party data to target ads come 2021, executives tell Axios, and it is building out a proprietary first-party data platform. From a report: Third-party data, which is collected from consumers on other websites, i… Continue reading The New York Times Phasing Out All 3rd-Party Advertising Data
“The Joe Rogan Experience,” one of podcasting’s longest-running and most popular shows, will be launching on Spotify exclusively this year. From a report: The Rogan-hosted comedy talk-show series will debut on Spotify on Sept. 1, 2020, on a nonexclusiv… Continue reading Joe Rogan is Moving His Podcast, One of the World’s Most Popular Podcasts, Exclusively To Spotify