Fake News
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The new Professor of Internet Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute, Philip Howard, gave his inaugural lecture last week. It’s now available online but to save your time, I watched it and summarised what I thought were the most interesting bits, for the fourth of these posts on fake news (previous posts here, here and here).…
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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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