Starring Joshua Malina, Alicia Hannah, Karen Epstein, Norman Epstein, and Kenneth Stephens. Written by Travon Free, Mikel Jollett, Randi Mayem Singer, and Danny Zuker.
Short Film: The Interview, with Josh Malina and Alicia Hannah
Tag: news
Slate on Facebook’s “retreat” from news
I spoke to Slate reporter Will Oremus on the double-sided coin that is the modern web for a feature about how referral traffic from Facebook has tanked for many web publishers (including, sadly, Slate): For every five people that Facebook used to send to Slate about a year ago, it now sends less than one.… Continue reading Slate on Facebook’s “retreat” from news
AP: Study finds false stories travel way faster than the truth
From the Associated Press: Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology looked at more than 126,000 stories tweeted millions of times between 2006 and the end of 2016 — before Donald Trump took office but during the combative presidential campaign. They found that “fake news” sped through Twitter “farther, faster, deeper and more broadly than the… Continue reading AP: Study finds false stories travel way faster than the truth
A framework for understanding fake news
The Wikimedia Foundation (which operates Wikipedia and its associated community projects like Creative Commons) funded new research into the supply and distribution of misinformation, fake news and falsified content. The research provides a helpful framework that makes it easier to discuss this complex and tricky topic. The representative chart below divides trends of fake news… Continue reading A framework for understanding fake news
Why I’m worried about the future of the open web
The most popular apps are competing against each other, sort of like a duel that's casting a shadow on the open web.
What scares me the most about “fake news”
Demand isn't necessarily correlated or even triggered by supply, but we don't have any studies about demand in fake news.
Brief lessons from a few hours off Twitter
Like most daily users of Twitter, I desperately needed a bunch of Kurtis Blow-style breaks.
Using free online tools to find better and faster news
I read the news for the first two hours of the day to get a sense of markets and top events.
How to follow Reuters using open resources
As a former social media editor at Reuters, I picked up a few methods I used to help track the fast-moving stream of information that is available to online users. There are many resources for Reuters, but these are the ones that worked best for live coverage. [I should say right at the start that… Continue reading How to follow Reuters using open resources
Path Dependency and News Discovery Algorithms
Many news organizations are increasingly filling websites with news about topics that readers have read before by taking advantage of user behavior data. These methods may have the opposite intended result of news discovery. Further, they may end up undercutting the value proposition of the media industry itself via a process economists call lock-in. 1 How does… Continue reading Path Dependency and News Discovery Algorithms
Margarita Noriega 