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Laura Hazard OwenNovember 9, 2018

Facebook Groups are “the greatest short-term threat to election news and information integrity”

Plus: How “junk news” differs from “fake news,” and LinkedIn gets less boring (but not in a good way).

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 2, 2018

What’s disinformation doing “right” — and what can newsrooms learn from it?

“Recognition of altruism as a motive for publishing (i.e. shedding a light on unknown/hidden information).”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 5, 2018

A new study provides some dispiriting evidence for why people fall for stupid fake images online

Plus: A U.K. report calls for governments to tread cautiously when it comes to fake news, as some other governments seem prepared to do the opposite.

Laura Hazard OwenApril 20, 2018

Can Facebook beat back the fake news in Ireland’s upcoming vote on abortion?

Plus: What people who like fact-checking are like, a new “digital deception” newsletter, and Facebook expands its fact-checking partnerships beyond the West.

Ashley RendersApril 4, 2018

What a failed media startup can teach us about involving readers in reporting

The Canadian startup OpenFile was a bet on collaboration between journalists and their audience: “We learned that we shouldn’t dismiss [a story] just because it’s not articulated in a way that we would as journalists.”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 23, 2018

Okay, if Facebook and Google aren’t publishers: How about editors?

Plus: Facebook found (and shut down) a Macedonian disinformation effort in the Alabama special election, and Facebook groups could get garbage-y fast.

Craig SilvermanMarch 8, 2018

Living in a sea of false signals: Are we being pushed from “trust, but verify” to “verify, then trust”?

BuzzFeed’s fake-news reporter outlines some of the dangers ahead: “We have a human problem on our hands. Our cognitive abilities are in some ways overmatched by what we have created.”

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 18, 2017

Are your Google search results another kind of filter bubble? The answer seems to be: Kind of

Plus: The AP’s new fake news listing, a lack of center-right news outlets, and how to spot a fake viral video.

Laura Hazard OwenJune 1, 2017

مستثمرون يحاربون الأخبار المزيّفة ونشرها على فايسبوك

تقول إحدى المستثمرات ناتاشا لامب من أرجونا لـهانا كوشلير في “فايننشال تايمز”: “تفضّل شركتا فايسبوك وغوغل أن تعتبرا من المنصات التقنية المُحايدة، ولكنهما تم تحويلهما إلى منابر إعلامية – ولهذا السبب نشعر بالقلق الشديد”.

A few things to watch from this weekend’s International Journalism Festival in Perugia

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