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“This is a load of crap on a number of levels.” “This article reads ‘FAKE NEWS.'” “I don’t believe this post is backed with any real knowledge or fact.” A simple hashtag intended to boost a post’s audience on social can also prime audiences to read it through an emotional, partisan lens.
Plus: Google debuts an automated, aggregated, atomized audio experience. Should publishers buy in?
“If a state can’t see itself reflected in the national political story, that’s a problem.”
“In the long run, it is unsustainable for public authorities and private companies to be allowed to mark their own homework in such an important area with no independent oversight.”
“If you don’t have a newspaper staff who points out when things aren’t working, there is no impetus behind trying to put somebody new in, right?”
Plus: “Subtly inducing people to think about the concept of accuracy decreases their sharing of false and misleading news relative to accurate news,” and the scariest deepfakes of all.