Factchequeado launches to combat misinformation in Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S.
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Monday, May 16, 2022
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Factchequeado launches to combat misinformation in Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S."One of our approaches here is thinking if we manage [to get] platforms and the companies to put attention into Spanish-language misinformation in the U.S., that is going to benefit our regions in the long term.” By Hanaa' Tameez. |
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What We’re Reading
The New York Times / Elizabeth Harris
After a risqué detour, literary magazine The Believer will return to McSweeney’s →
“After a week of frantic headlines about the sale, Paradise Media has become an unlikely hero to the literary institution. On Monday, it announced the sale of The Believer back to its original owner, the nonprofit publisher McSweeney's, at what McSweeney's described as a ‘meaningful’ loss.”
Politico / Steven Shepard
Pollsters are making big changes after two straight presidential election misses →
“Both the internal polling that drives campaigns' decisions and the media surveys that help shape coverage of the races are already changing: Pollsters are trying new ways to collect data, like contacting potential respondents by text message instead of phone calls, and seeking new ways of adjusting the data after to make it more accurately reflect the whole electorate.”
Columbia / Lee Bollinger
Jelani Cobb will be the next dean of Columbia Journalism School →
“Jelani's vision for the future of the Journalism School is one that embraces the vital role of journalism in our society, on a local and global scale, and the need to ensure our graduates are as well prepared as possible for an incredibly dynamic and changing field.”
The Wall Street Journal / Megan Graham
Your hotel room TV will soon know that you’re looking to buy a new blender →
“Marriott International Inc. is introducing a media network this month with Yahoo Inc. that will help advertisers target consumers, in part by using the hotel chain's data on its guests, to bring them ads on places such as the hotel's websites and, eventually, on the TV sets in their rooms.”
The New York Times / Kellen Browning and Ryan Mac
After the Buffalo shooting livestream, social platforms are facing questions →
“Social media and content moderation experts said Twitch's quick response was the best that could reasonably be expected…’I'm impressed that they got it down in two minutes,’ said Micah Schaffer, a consultant who has led trust and safety decisions at Snapchat and YouTube. ‘But if the feeling is that even that's too much, then you really are at an impasse: Is it worth having this?'”
The Guardian / Saffron O'Neill
Why do newspapers keep running climate change and heatwave photos that make them seem…fun? →
Stories studied in four European countries “used images of ‘fun in the sun’ that depicted heatwaves as something enjoyable. In all four countries, the majority of these images showed people having a good time in or by water. This was particularly prominent in the UK, perhaps saying something about how British culture narrates the experience of very hot weather in our historically mild climate.”
The New York Times / Sam Roberts
How fake news used to work →
“Henry Scott Stokes, a tweedy British-born journalist who demystified Japan for English-speaking readers as Tokyo bureau chief for three major newspapers,” was also author of a book alleging the rape of Nanjing “did not take place.” Oh, and he acknowledged that “although the book was credited to him, he had never even read it, much less written it.” (“Throughout his career, most of it spent in Japan, Mr. Scott Stokes could barely speak or write Japanese.”)
The Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan
Democracy is at stake in the midterms. The media must convey that. →
“But do American citizens get it? Do they fully recognize that our precious democracy may soon fall into history's sea? If they think about it at all, have they resigned themselves to what they consider the inevitable and not recognize that preserving that democracy is every bit as possible — if unlikely — as that Churchill Downs stunner? My sense is that the news media has to try harder — and differently — to get this message across to voters, who are the only ones who can truly protect democracy.”
The Guardian / Tom Phillips, Analy Nuño, John Bartlett, and Sufian Taha
A dark week for journalism: Four reporters were killed around the world, in Mexico, Chile, and Israel →
“… there is a common thread here, which is that in 2022 we have seen a real upsurge in the numbers of journalists being killed. It is very difficult to draw a direct connection between any of these killings except to say that it has become — and is becoming, I believe — more dangerous to do independent journalism.”
The Washington Post / Erik Wemple
“Courageous,” “prescient,” “sweeping”: These are the increasingly flowery adjectives of the Pulitzer Prizes →
Tired: “For his distinguished reporting during the year 1943.” Wired: “For its compellingly told and vividly presented account of the assault on Washington on January 6, 2021, providing the public with a thorough and unflinching understanding of one of the nation’s darkest days.”
The New York Times
How Hollywood and the media fueled the political rise of J.D. Vance →
“The fact that a rising star in the Republican Party, which has recently emphasized cultural grievances with the likes of Twitter, CNN and Disney, came to prominence through elite media institutions is not surprising to scholars and cultural critics who have long understood the symbiotic relationship between those ostensible antagonists: the conservative movement and the media-entertainment complex.
The Guardian / Luke Winkie
Data the dog: Twitter turns its privacy policy into an old-school video game →
“The platform unveiled Twitter Data Dash, which plays like a vintage side-scrolling platformer that's been draped with a healthy dose of disinformation anxiety. You take control of a blue-hued puppy named Data and are tasked with retrieving five bones hidden in each of the game's Day-Glo urban environments. (Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was the analog I kept returning to during my gameplay.)”
Reuters
Elon Musk says Twitter’s legal team told him he violated an NDA →
“Musk on Friday tweeted that his $44-billion cash deal to take the company private was ‘temporarily on hold’ while he awaited data on the proportion of its fake accounts.”
The Guardian / Adam Barnett and Damien Gayle
The new chairman of GB News has a history of denying climate change →
“Alan McCormick, a co-founder of Legatum Group, a Dubai-based investment firm and one of the channel's key funders, tweeted several articles by climate science deniers, an investigation by DeSmog found, including one claiming there was ‘no scientific proof’ that humans were causing the climate emergency.”
The Guardian / Ed Pilkington
The U.S. secretly subpoenaed a Guardian reporter’s phone records →
“…as part of an aggressive leak investigation into media stories about an official inquiry into the Trump administration's child separation policy at the southern border…It is highly unusual for US government officials to obtain a journalist's phone details in this way, especially when no national security or classified information is involved.”
Press Gazette / Andrew Kersley
The social media giants are “working against” journalists, the BBC’s digital director says →
“I believe we [news companies] are actually not competing with each other anymore. To some extent we are. But I think most of the time, we are either growing the pie of time people spend on journalism, or we're shrinking it.”
The Washington Post / Paul Farhi
Conservative media is very familiar with the Buffalo mass shooter’s racist “theory” →
“…a once-fringe racist idea that became a popular refrain among media figures such as Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham of Fox News and conservative writer Ann Coulter.”
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