Newsrooms handle online harassment inequitably, journalists say
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Thursday, February 9, 2023
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Newsrooms handle online harassment inequitably, journalists say“Because social media policies tend to focus on how posts get perceived rather than how they are written in the first place, enforcement most frequently occurred when the online audience was upset about something.” By Naseem Miller. |
What We’re Reading
Better News / Kamaria Roberts
How the Detroit Free Press is using personas to better gauge readers’ interests →
“We had to gain a better understanding of our subscribers as a whole, and acquire information that helps us learn more about them.”
The Independent / Isobel Lewis
Jeremy Clarkson's Meghan Markle column in The Sun will be investigated by UK press regulator →
“In the article, Clarkson wrote that he dreamt of the day Meghan would be made to parade naked through Britain while crowds chanted ‘shame’ and threw ‘excrement’ at her….It is Ipso's most complained-about article ever.”
The New York Times / Tiffany Hsu and Stuart A. Thompson
Disinformation researchers raise alarms about AI chatbots →
“The technology produced responses that seemed authoritative but were often provably untrue. Many were pockmarked with phrases popular with misinformation peddlers, such as ‘do your own research’ and ‘caught red-handed,’ along with citations of fake scientific studies and even references to falsehoods not mentioned in the original prompt.”
Washington Post / Taylor Lorenz
Extremist influencers are generating millions for Twitter, report says →
“Our research shows that there is a depressingly banal answer to why Elon Musk would reinstate the accounts of self-professed Nazis, disinformation actors, misogynists and homophobes — it's highly profitable.”
Techdirt / Mike Masnick
It’s time to codify the “New York Times v. Sullivan” standard into law →
“Some professors are calling on Congress to do what the could have done to protect Roe (but never did), and make an effort now to take the Supreme Court's Sullivan standard and have Congress pass it into law.”
Futurism / Jon Christian
Men’s Journal publishes serious errors in first AI-generated health article →
“When Futurism reached out to Arena and several representatives of Men's Journal about the issues, a cascade of changes started to appear in the AI-generated testosterone article, correcting various errors pointed out by Anawalt until the piece was almost unrecognizable.”
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