“Whoa!” “I’m crying!” “Worrisome!” “Buckle up!” The swift, …
2020年11月30日 · It wasn’t until the sixth tweet in the thread that Feigl-Ding mentioned the important detail that the “worrisome” mutation doesn’t appear to make people sicker, though it could make the virus more contagious. To Angela Rasmussen, a Columbia University virologist, this represents a pattern. “[T]his is his MO,” she wrote in an email.
Should we consider fake news another form of (not particularly ...
2018年2月16日 · “Most forms of political persuasion seem to have little effect at all.” Dartmouth’s Brendan Nyhan writes in The New York Times that it isn’t that easy to change people’s votes in an election, in an Upshot post titled “Fake news and bots …
Journalists are suffering mental health consequences from …
Early results from a new study on mental health among journalists covering the pandemic were so worrisome that the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism decided to publish the preliminary data. "This is early data on a vital topic," wrote Meera Selva, the study's co-author and …
Alberto Cairo: Data journalism needs to up its own standards
2014年7月9日 · 1. Data and explanatory journalism cannot be done on the cheap. It’s hard to produce a constant stream of good data journalism on the cheap and with a small team. If history can be considered as a guidance, we should remember that this is not how data journalism was done in the past. Journalism that takes advantage of quantitative methods and ...
How Telegram played itself | Nieman Journalism Lab
2024年8月27日 · “A worrisome outcome of France’s ultimate prosecution of Telegram, assuming there is one, is that it will embolden countries around the world to prosecute platform CEOs criminally for failing to turn over user data….On the other hand, Telegram really does seem to be actively enabling a staggering amount of abuse.
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2020年11月30日 · “Whoa!” “I’m crying!” “Worrisome!” “Buckle up!” The swift, complicated rise of Eric Feigl-Ding and his Covid tweet threads The scientist has gained popularity as Covid’s excitable play-by-play announcer.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing — no, seriously, it is ...
2019年2月8日 · The most worrisome misinformation in U.S. politics remains the old-fashioned kind: false and misleading statements made by elected officials who dominate news coverage and wield the powers of government.
What should newsrooms do about deepfakes? These three things, …
2019年11月20日 · Deepfakes — pieces of AI-synthesized image and video content persuasively depicting things that never happened — are now a constant presence in conversations about the future of disinformation. These concerns have been kicked into even higher gear by the swiftly approaching 2020 U.S. election. A video essay from The Atlantic admonishes us ...
Anti-vaxxers are among the WHO’s top 10 global health threats, …
2019年1月18日 · It would be especially worrisome if the very large low- and middle-income countries — such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the BRIC nations), or Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan — reduce their vaccine coverage.
A packed set of Apple announcements could have big impacts on …
2021年6月8日 · These all sound appealing as a user — but they’re worrisome as a news publisher. How, exactly, will the “priority” level of an app be determined? There will be ways for users to manually adjust those settings, but the main work is done by Apple’s machine learning, based on how you interact with the apps on your device each day.