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Wednesday, April 18, 2018
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Truth Goggles are back! And ready for the next era of fact-checking“Why can't we use the Cambridge Analytica [method] for good, to help people actually know good things?” By Christine Schmidt. |
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Facing government pressure, this Polish news organization is zipping through its subscription goals and strengthening its local loyalty“Gazeta Wyborcza is really ambitious, and I think it's the political situation that is making us so motivated. We’re speeding up some processes that may take much more time in other organizations across Europe.” By Christine Schmidt. |
What We’re Reading
Buzzfeed / Ben Smith
What comes after the social media empires? →
"It's a really different world post-2016. The election may have helped fragment us more than we were fragmented," says Ethan Zuckerman, the director of MIT's Center for Civic Media, who has grappled with the questions of a new, decentralized social sphere. "Maybe we've reached the point where it's not even possible to have Facebook in common."
The Ringer / Bryan Curtis
The Rocky Mountain highs and ignominious lows of a local sports section →
“But there's no question the sleeper hold Alden put on the paper has made things worse in sports. John Leyba, a well-regarded photographer who had been at The Post since 1984, left last week as part of the most recent round of layoffs. Because of earlier printing press runs (another near-universal headache for newspapers), Rockies writer Nick Groke started turning in first drafts of his gamers in the eighth inning, so as not to overwhelm the already depleted copy staff.”
Poynter / Daniel Funke
In one month, Facebook doubled the countries using its fact-checking tool — all outside the West →
“What started as a pilot project 16 months ago is now one of Facebook's primary weapons against fake news.”
OpenNews
Here’s a definitive field guide to security training in the newsroom →
“We want to see a whole lot more people prepared to answer those questions and help newsrooms do a better job of communicating (and storing data) securely. BuzzFeed Open Lab and OpenNews teamed up to assemble a solid, thoughtful series of training modules and resource guides that folks can use to help colleagues step up their security literacy. We'd like to cover everything from how to explain why migrating to a password manager is worth the trouble, to how to convince whoever needs convincing that installing Secure Drop is worth the trouble.”
Medium / Nirzar Pangarkar
Wikipedia is prototyping how news organizations could use Wikipedia previews for more context in their own sites →
“Page previews pave a path for another way to interact with Wikipedia. The reading experience of Wikipedia can be broken down into smaller pieces. We're looking forward to more ways of moving away from the traditional notion of single monolithic articles towards more modular and contextual learning.”
The Guardian / Juliette Garside
A bomb silenced Daphne Caruana Galizia, but her investigation lives on →
“With the support of her family, a group of 18 international media organisations, including the Guardian, Reuters and Le Monde, has come together. Led by Forbidden Stories, whose mission is to continue the work of silenced journalists, the group has spent months piecing together Caruana Galizia's story and pursuing the investigations she was working on when she was killed. Today, the project launches with the story of her murder, of the men facing trial for the crime, and the enduring mystery of who ordered it, and why.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
How GDPR will change Facebook’s ad targeting →
“The social platform is in the challenging position of being classified as a data controller and a data processor under GDPR law. So for certain tools like Facebook's Lead Ads, which allow advertisers to collect information from users directly from mobile ads on Facebook, both Facebook and the businesses that use that tool are data controllers, meaning both parties are responsible for ensuring compliance. Whenever Facebook matches an advertiser's customer-relationship management data to its user database to create a custom audience for a campaign, Facebook is classified as a data processor. Whereas for Audience Network, Facebook is the data controller and therefore shoulders the corresponding responsibilities to data subjects, such as access, so it will need consent to continue operating Audience Network.”