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Plus: Google’s war with French newspapers, the inevitable privacy concerns with Facebook Graph Search, and the rest of the week’s media/tech news.
The InformaCam app, which uses metadata to help authenticate videos and photos, is being developed with funding from the Knight News Challenge. Justin Ellis
Plus: The Manti Te’o hoax, The Atlantic’s botched Scientology advertorial, a check on CNET’s editorial independence, and the rest of the week’s media/tech news.
Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here are 10 of the studies about social and digital media they found most interesting in 2012.
Plus: Lowering paywalls during Sandy, the ongoing fallout from the BBC’s sex abuse scandal, and the rest of this week’s media and tech reads.
Plus: The fallout from WikiLeaks’ hoax, the rise and fall of Jonah Lehrer, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
Opportunities to debunk or verify abound, and the price for inaccuracy has never been higher, Craig Silverman argues.
“Authority has been replaced by authenticity as the currency of social journalism.” Mark Little
The golden rule of verification: Get the person responsible for posting the material in question on the phone. David Turner
Researchers at Indiana University are examining how politically engaged Twitter users display journalistic behaviors and how they shape the site as a news source.