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Another 20% say people should only be targeted only by very basic information, like gender, age or ZIP code. Only 7% like the status quo on Facebook, Google, and other digital platforms.

In December 2018, more than 9 percent of all videos recommended to users watching news clips went to conspiracy-theory videos. Now that’s 2.4 percent. (BTW, did you know angels are hidden beneath the ice in Antarctica?)

“These bad faith attacks target what many newsrooms value: fairness and impartiality. But all reporters have opinions and feelings…By pretending to speak the language of editorial values, trolls and organized adversaries have baited newsroom leaders into failing to protect their reporters. The objective of online trolls and harassers is to have editorial organizations waste their time by trying to create wedges in their ranks, whether that’s by digging up old tweets or trying to rules-lawyer an organization’s social media policy. They want to intimidate us and have us disavow our colleagues. And they are using ‘fairness’ and ‘impartiality’ to do it.

“Avoid debunking a fringe theory if it hasn’t gotten much attention yet. Repetition makes misinformation feel more true.”

“Reddit has long relied on its small army of volunteer moderators to keep the site livable despite a never-ending onslaught of trolls, spammers, and, now, avid propagandists . . . ‘As we approach the 2020 election, things are only going to get worse. There will be more blogs pushing misinformation or disinformation. There will be more people calling for the ignoring of decorum or rules.'” —SS

“For AAP, the changing commercial dynamics have resulted in the loss of clients, specifically broadcasters, who have cancelled AAP subscription services worth hundreds of thousands of dollars because, in the words of one TV media executive: ‘We just Google it.'”

“I think there’s a gravitas factor being sought. I think they want to do ambitious work, and they know that they have to figure out a lot of ways to make it, if not profitable, then not a money pit.”

“I think voting is a baseline action as a citizen. I wouldn’t feel comfortable suggesting that our journalists shouldn’t vote. But we don’t need them to go any further than that.”

“Hostility against Latinos, it seems, has become an everyday issue in many U.S. communities. This has created a dangerous environment for journalists, especially those covering border issues and immigration. Reporters have been subject to unusual and uncomfortable scrutiny by border agents. They’ve been denied entry to Mexico. (Some Latin American reporters have also been barred from entering the U.S. even though they have valid visas.) Online harassment is on the rise. Border and Latino journalists believe they’re living in a toxic culture without an infrastructure of safety and security, either online or in real life.”

Following the departures of Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora to start The 19th. “These are two immensely impressive people. We are so lucky to get to work with them. It’s a measure of how far we’ve come as an organization that we could attract the likes of Stacy and Millie to join us and lead us.”

“[Public service broadcasters’] innovations around online and on-demand content to try and meet audience expectations ‘have not yet fully made up for the loss of live broadcast viewers, particularly among younger people,’ Ofcom said.”

“State Department officials refused to call the impacted employees journalists, saying they work for propaganda organs.”