Facebook looks ready to divorce the news industry, and I doubt couples counseling will help | Nieman Journalism Lab Pinboard · 2 weeks ago
How many bots are on Twitter? Question is tough to answer and misses the point Hacker News · 1 month ago
The New York Times would really like its reporters to stop scrolling and get off Twitter (at least once in a while) | Nieman Journalism Lab Pinboard · 3 months ago
Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive still working to democratize knowledge Hacker News · 3 months ago
Incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, bad journalism Hacker News · 5 months ago
The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC says » Nieman Journalism Lab Pinboard · 8 months ago
In the ocean’s worth of new Facebook revelations out today, here are some of the most important drops » Nieman Journalism Lab Pinboard · 8 months ago
How people reason their way through echo chambers and what might guide them out Hacker News · 9 months ago
A look at how the Chicago Tribune story spread via Facebook and why publishers need to take more responsibility for what they push onto social media Techmeme · 10 months ago
Survey: social media users see the removal of hate speech as more fair than removing profanity, with moderators who removed hate speech seen as more trustworthy Techmeme · 1 year ago
Apple's changes to notifications on phones and the addition of Mail Privacy Protection could hurt publishers, including solo newsletter publishers on Substack Techmeme · 1 year ago
Facebook's Australia news ban shows tech giants don't mind giving up money to appease regulators and business, but will not give up control over platforms Techmeme · 1 year ago
Thanks to the Internet Archive, the history of American newspapers is more searchable than ever Reddit · 1 year ago
We need to learn how to talk to (and about) accidental conspiracists » Nieman Journalism Lab Pinboard · 2 years ago
Survey of post samples from 173 adult US Facebook users' feeds during October 2020 found that 54% of users saw no news within the first 10 posts of their feeds Techmeme · 2 years ago
Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince governments not to take more Hacker News · 2 years ago
Journalists perceive stories published in local news outlets to be less worthy Hacker News · 2 years ago
Fortnite’s battle with Apple and Google could have an impact on news publishers Hacker News · 2 years ago
Hundreds of hyperpartisan sites are masquerading as local news. This map shows if there’s one near you. » Nieman Journalism Lab Pinboard · 2 years ago
Recent podcasting deals between platforms and talent resemble the deals musicians used to sign with record labels, forfeiting ownership in exchange for exposure Techmeme · 2 years ago
At launch, Facebook News had very few stories on politics, many New York Times links, and coverage overlapped little with the most popular articles on Facebook Techmeme · 2 years ago
Who needs deepfakes? Simple out-of-context photos can be a powerfully low-tech form of misinformation. A bogus headline seems both more true and more familiar to people when it’s accompanied by a photo of any kind. Reddit · 2 years ago
YouTube’s algorithm is pushing climate misinformation videos, and their creators are profiting from it Reddit · 2 years ago
People who are given correct information still misremember it to fit their own beliefs » Nieman Journalism Lab Pinboard · 3 years ago
Newsonomics: By selling to America’s worst newspaper owners, Michael Ferro ushers the vultures into Tribune » Nieman Journalism Lab Pinboard · 3 years ago
Tech platforms are where public life is increasingly constructed, and their motivations are far from neutral Reddit · 3 years ago
Twitter says it wants to solve the “journalists’ careers end because someone digs up an old tweet” problem » Nieman Journalism Lab Pinboard · 3 years ago
Study of 1,769 undergrads in Texas finds those who spent time away from Facebook consumed less news and reported feeling less depressed than those who didn't Techmeme · 3 years ago
“We realized Spotify for news was exactly the wrong thing to do.” Here’s what Kinzen is doing instead » Nieman Journalism Lab Pinboard · 3 years ago
How The Wall Street Journal is building an incubator into its newsroom, with new departments and plenty of hires » Nieman Journalism Lab Pinboard · 3 years ago
After 6 months of fact-checking for Facebook, Full Fact published 96 fact-checks, was paid ~$171k, wants Facebook to share more data with fact-checkers Techmeme · 3 years ago
Q&A with Ching-Ching Ni, the EIC of NYT's seven-year-old free Chinese language site, growing the audience for its news despite China's crackdown on VPNs Techmeme · 3 years ago
The “backfire effect” is mostly a myth, a broad look at the research suggests Hacker News · 3 years ago
Why do some people avoid news? Because they don’t trust us — or because they don’t think we add value to their lives? » Nieman Journalism Lab Pinboard · 3 years ago
The New York Times course to teach its reporters data skills is now open-source Hacker News · 3 years ago
ProPublica's Political Ad Collector browser extension, now owned by the Globe and Mail, is working once again after being blocked by Facebook earlier this year Techmeme · 3 years ago
Google's Digital News Initiative is expanding its funding to North America, opening application for an "innovation challenge" offering projects up to $300K Techmeme · 3 years ago