Since the panic over fake news erupted after the U.S. election and spread into Europe, a number of fact-checking and content verification tools went into development. But there are still few tools dedicated to video verification. InVID, a three-year collaborative …
InVID Wants to Help Journalists Debunk Fake Videos
Since the panic over fake news erupted after the U.S. election and spread into Europe, a number of fact-checking and content verification tools went into development. But there are still few tools dedicated to video verification. InVID, a three-year collaborative …
Why you should care about net neutrality
The soporific name is enough to induce disinterest, but net neutrality is a topic that should concern everyone who believes in the open internet. Yesterday, visitors to major websites like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter saw messages about the future
Google’s Digital News Initiative awards $805K to Radar, a project building software to automate the writing of 30K local stories a month (April Glaser/Recode)
Mediagazer presents the day’s must-read media news on a single page.
The media business is in tumult: from the production side to
the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry.
Keeping up with these changes is time-consuming, as essential
GitHub launches Open Source Friday
Open source software is developed by hobbyists and professionals alike. In fact, 65% of respondents to this year’s GitHub open source survey who make contributions to open source projects do so as part of their job. However, the survey indicates
Why It’s Important to Understand Social Media’s Dark History
It was in April 2016 that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media platform was providing its nearly two billion users the opportunity to livestream content. The move was viewed as a natural extension of the platform’s primary …
What we miss when we obsess over Trump’s tweets
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg, via Getty Images
Remember when we used to obsess about every presidential tweet? When every story was about us? When Donald Trump’s war with the media was, really, the only thing that mattered?
We need to stop.
Q&A: Filmmaker documents courage of Syria’s citizen journalists
Courtesy of IFC/Amazon
Matthew Heineman has a reputation for fearless filmmaking. His 2015 documentary, Cartel Land, about American and Mexican vigilante groups fighting drug cartels along the US-Mexican border, features stomach-churning examples of Heineman putting himself in danger to
How an algorithm can decide what news you read online
At Sweden’s Svenska Dagbladet, an algorithm combines editors’ news sensibilities with reader preferences to create a personalized home page for each visitor.
Originalmente publicado em http://j.mp/2sy7kWp
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Euro MP Pascal Arimont’s all out attack on the ‘right to link’
A group of MEPs have come up with changes to the EU copyright law so out of touch with every piece of research, the public’s views, and parliamentary debates, that we’re frankly gobsmacked.
The Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
…Violating Net Neutrality is not a Good Way to Promote Canadian Content
Rober Taylor via Flickr
Credit
"Consigning Canadian content to the mandatory free lane would send a signal that it can’t compete."
Originalmente publicado em http://j.mp/2rryRcb…
24 Billion Clicks Via 700 Ad Networks Reveals 15.2% Mobile Ad Fraud Rate
Eight ad networks are 100% fraud. 35 ad networks are 50% or greater. But overall, 17.17% of all mobile ads that marketers pay to place in front of consumers are fraudulent.
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