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Lies have a life of their own, and people want to believe them, especially when they are about people they don’t like, “the other”. Facts don’t sway people. As Laura Hazard Owen recently reported in Nieman Lab, three leading fact-checking organizations have said their work needs to go beyond simply calling out the lies of […]
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 »Digital advertising is broken for many publications. Back in the days when my job was persuading advertisers to spend money with our business publication, I would talk about the importance of a client’s ad appearing next to credible, high-quality content. Editorial environment matters, was the argument. Google, Facebook, and Yahoo pretty much destroyed that business […]
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