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In Brazil, Hungary, Poland, and Mexico, populist presidents have weaponized social media to undermine the press Editors of leading publications in those countries described their own strategies to defend press freedom. Key elements: don’t back down, collaborate internationally, protect your team, uncover the facts. Some of the tactics used by populist presidents include taking over […]
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Note to readers: I wrote this blog post in November 2018, but it seems relevant today. Lots of people distrust the news media and lots of people distrust the government. And I am not just talking about the U.S. but Spain, the U.K., Italy, etc., etc., etc. This blog post started out as an explanation […]
Read More »Now that Facebook has made clear that it will not be promoting journalism to its users, all of the publishers who were getting much of their traffic there should look elsewhere. (Frederic Filloux of Monday Note has one of the best analyses of the company’s announcement.) What now? Well, there are several tactics and strategies […]
Read More »Fillloux: calificación de credibilidad La rápida difusión de las noticias falsas diseñadas para influir en los votantes está poniendo a prueba las democracias del mundo desarrollado. Francia, Catalunya, el Reino Unido, y, por supuesto, los Estados Unidos han experimentado su propia historia asombrosa de esta tendencia. Desde diferentes instancias nacionales e internacionales se ha propuesto -un ejemplo es el World […]
Read More »Filloux: A credibility scorecard Liberal democracies are being tested around the world by the rapid diffusion of misleading or false information designed to influence voters. It has happened in France, Catalonia, the U.K., and, of course, the U.S. Many have proposed–for example, the World Economic Forum–that two of the most powerful vehicles for spreading information, […]
Read More »A deal with the devil. A new study by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) confirms what I have suspected for a long time: when publishers rely on Facebook for distribution, they are making a deal with the devil. “Reality Check: Making Money with Facebook” was based on a survey of an “expert […]
Read More »En mi papel de profesor, me pregunto frecuentemente qué impacto tienen mis clases en las mentes de los alumnos. Honestamente, ¿cómo es posible que cualquiera persona preste atención a una clase al cien por cien durante 45 minutos? ¿Es posible que a veces se distraiga? Mientras explico la teoría de las externalidades del mercado, todas […]
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