Experts
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‘The Russians were pioneers. They understood that social media could be manipulated long before other people did.’ In a recent interview, available as a podcast here, Anne Applebaum explained why fake news in the context of the US elections isn’t really news, because there’s no country in Europe that doesn’t have a similar story about…
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Tracking the fake news and hate speech rows and research
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This week I’m taking down Google and annoying Mac users (not intending to annoy but I reckon it will happen). Here’s Google looking shy. It’s a longer post as so much fighting over the Internet happened in March. First up, on March 1st the government published the latest UK digital strategy. It got little coverage…
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You’ll be awake if you’re reading this but are you also woke? Today’s experts in my recommended list research how politicians in the USA have made use of Twitter. They are Jason Gainous and Kevin Wagner, who published Tweeting to Power: the social media revolution in American politics. Because they’ve done a lot of serious…
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Nicholas Russell writing in the Times Higher Education refers to a paper by Friederike Hendriks , Dorothe Kienhues, Rainer Bromme on measuring laypeople’s trust in experts. Expertise is not enough. ‘We must also believe the specific expert in question to be honest and to have our welfare at heart.’ Unfortunately Nicholas Russell only mentioned Hendriks,…
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