Anxiety and conflict avoidance keep people from calling out misinformation in messaging groups
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
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Anxiety and conflict avoidance keep people from calling out misinformation in messaging groups“It's not simple media literacy. It's a tough nut to crack.” By Shraddha Chakradhar. |
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How can publishers respond to the power of platforms?“We may not like them, but they have been absolutely essential in expanding our reach and building our digital business.” By Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Sarah Anne Ganter. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Dalya Al Masri
Dena Takruri on the appeal of AJ+ →
“What we're doing at AJ+ is we're offering an alternative, so we don't put forth an ideological conviction to our stories or angles, we say that we choose to make the world knowable to our audience through the lens of justice. We approach things from a global perspective.”
TechCrunch / Aisha Malik
Twitter confirms fluctuations in follower counts after Musk deal was announced were organic →
“Once the news was announced, numerous high-profile cases saw increases or decreases in followers. Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch that these fluctuations were the result of new account creation and deactivation, and were not caused by bots or due to action on the social media giant's part.”
Simon Owens's Media Newsletter / Simon Owens
How a former Cosmo editor built Australia’s largest women-focused media company →
Today, Mamamia is not only one of the most successful independent media businesses in Australia, but it operates the largest women-focused podcast network in the world. It monetizes through multiple revenue streams that include branded content, ecommerce, and paid subscriptions.”
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Joe Rogan backlash didn’t hurt Spotify as paying subscribers grew 15% in the first quarter of 2022 →
“Despite losing 1.5 million users in Russia, Spotify's premium subscribers grew 15% year-over-year in the first quarter to reach 182 million, largely in line with analyst estimates. Ad-supported users, meanwhile, grew 21% to reach 252 million.”
Vogue / Michelle Ruiz
How women correspondents are defining war coverage in Ukraine →
“…It is their in-depth, empathetic, almost impressionistic emphasis on civilian life—the upheavals, the sudden loss of normalcy, and the everyday ways people persist in the darkest of circumstances—that has been defining the coverage.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
Piers Morgan, Donald Trump, and the doomed transatlantic culture wars →
“For all his risible self-promotion about speaking truth to Trump's power, Morgan fell between two cultural stools. He didn't actually take Trump on, in the very British tradition of the interviewer who's not afraid to speak his mind. But nor did he kowtow to Trump's election denialism—a basic requirement for many right-wing media consumers in the US.”
Motherboard / Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
A leaked document shows that Facebook doesn’t know what it does with your data, or where it goes →
“Even Facebook's own engineers admit that they are struggling to make sense and keep track of where user data goes once it's inside Facebook's systems, according to the document. This problem inside Facebook is known as ‘data lineage.’"
Nieman Reports / Javier Garza Ramos
In Mexico, a mix of violence and economics threaten local news organizations →
“According to figures compiled by ARTICLE 19, a non-profit working on press freedom issues, in 2021 a journalist was attacked in Mexico every 14 hours, on average. Three years ago, it was an attack every 16 hours, and three years before that, every 22 hours.”
The Toronto Star / Marie Woolf
Facebook has serious concerns over Canada’s online news bill →
“Canada's law, which is different in some respects from the Australian model, will set up a process for digital platforms to privately negotiate deals with newspapers, magazines and online news groups, as well as broadcasters that publish news online. It will permit news organizations to team up to bargain collectively with digital companies for compensation. If they cannot reach a deal within six months, tech platforms will be forced into mediation with news outlets and, if that doesn't work, then binding arbitration.”
Gizmodo / Dell Cameron
Twitter admits it hid tweets about HBO’s QAnon docuseries →
“The documentary, Q: Into the Storm, debuted as a six-part series on HBO Max in March 2021. Twitter decided to "limit the visibility" of the series on its social network shortly after the release, a Twitter spokesperson said.”
Los Angeles Times / Harriet Ryan
The Los Angeles County Sheriff is targeting a LA Times reporter who revealed a cover-up in his department →
The sheriff's attack on reporter Alene Tchekmedyian during a news conference drew immediate condemnation from the newspaper. "His attempt to criminalize news reporting goes against well-established constitutional law," said Kevin Merida, executive editor of The Times.
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