“Society may bear some responsibility, but so do individual Facebook users…Ultimately, people need to save themselves more and worry a little less about saving everyone else.”
“More than a quarter of the content shared by the Bharatiya Janata Party and a fifth of the content shared by the Indian National Congress is junk news.”
$660,000 to support a 50-member network will go to Solutions Journalism Network and Report for America for one year from a trio of place-based foundations.
Plus: Whether Americans believe climate change is caused by humans depends on how you ask the question, and WhatsApp clones are getting around some restrictions designed to limit the spread of fake news.
“Society may bear some responsibility, but so do individual Facebook users…Ultimately, people need to save themselves more and worry a little less about saving everyone else.”
“Front pages online and in print, as well as radio and television news bulletins, routinely feature temperature and precipitation reports and forecasts — ‘news you can use,’ telling you whether to wear a raincoat and carry an umbrella. Why not also a measure of the health of the earth? Easy.”
“Link in Bio products might be solving some major marketing hurdles on Instagram. When we examined the Link in Bio referrals, we found an additional 10-15% of traffic coming from Instagram.”
“While Twitter didn’t comment on the content of its increased ad load, the quality bar has seemed to go down as the number of impressions has gone up. One recent promoted tweet linked to an article about overseas women looking for American men, while another promoted a list of comics about ‘double standards in society that will make you stop and think.’ Another offered to explain ‘Why one in two Slavic women want to spend their lives with a Western man.’
Publishers including Quartz, The Guardian and The Atlantic already have people in the role — The Guardian’s has been there for years — but over the past six months, publishers ranging from HuffPost and BuzzFeed News to more specialized sites such as The Intercept and Texas Tribune have all put up job listings for membership editors.
“One version, posted by the conservative Facebook page Politics WatchDog, had been viewed more than 2 million times by Thursday night, been shared more than 45,000 times, and garnered 23,000 comments with users calling her ‘drunk’ and ‘a babbling mess.'”
“Mr. Harty, the CEO, told an investor conference earlier this year that the company outperformed its key rivals in recent years, citing ‘our philosophy of focusing on women and not news-generated content.'”
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