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Articles tagged LinkedIn (27)

“While you’re less at the whim of the algorithm, it’s still social media.”
Twitter’s version of the ubiquitous format is an important advance for people wanting to separate the public and long-lasting from the private and ephemeral. But publishers aren’t likely to benefit from a less broadcast-oriented Twitter.
Plus: How “junk news” differs from “fake news,” and LinkedIn gets less boring (but not in a good way).
Forty-two percent of Democrats say the news they get on social media has helped their understanding of current events, compared to 24 percent of Republicans who say the same thing.
Plus: LinkedIn claims it doesn’t have a fake news problem, Facebook’s “disputed story” alerts are spotted in the wild, and middle schoolers get trained to be skeptical.
Mais: o Linkedin alega que não tem um problema de fake news, os alertas de “história contestada” do Facebook são detectados e alunos do 3.º ciclo são treinados para serem cépticos.
The quest for scale, driven by the distribution power of a few enormous technology platforms, is killing the business case for local news. Will anything take its place?