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24 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Facebook engineers proposed a feature to notify users when they had shared false news items. "But that was vetoed by policy executives who feared it would disproportionately show notifications to people who shared false news from right-wing websites." nytimes.com/2020/11/24/tec…
An algorithm Facebook developed to demote so-called 'hate bait'... "was limited to being used only on groups, rather than pages, after the policy team determined that it would primarily affect right-wing publishers if it were applied more broadly." nytimes.com/2020/11/24/tec…
@kevinroose @MikeIsaac @sheeraf Thank you for this illuminating report. I had one question: whether idealists vs. pragmatists is really the right pair of terms here. Trying to limit misinformation and polarizing content seems quite "pragmatic" to me. Not doing so sounds illusory.
@kevinroose @MikeIsaac @sheeraf In a similar way, if Facebook is trying to keep the "you just shared false news" notifications in some rough balance between left and right sources, that seems idealist or maybe fanciful, but a word I would not use for it is "pragmatic."

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One of the most loathsome genres in this election cycle: the "people on both sides think the other is going to steal the election" — also known as a "dueling realities" — story. From the home of this kind of journalism, @nprpolitics. npr.org/2020/10/28/928… Key word: BOTH SIDES.
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Via @airbagmoments npr.org/2020/10/27/928…
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17 Oct
Here's a fun thread for journalism junkies, newspaper lovers and history buffs.

I had the help of one of my Twitter followers, @BalanceTheCheck, who collected the names of hundreds of newspapers (The Herald, The Star, The Enquirer, etc.) which he put into a spreadsheet... 1/
...Then we tried to categorize them by putting together titles that felt similar, like The Guardian and The Defender, which rely on a common image of protection.

Final step: write a short description of the categories, and add the newspaper names that exemplify it. 2/
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14 Oct
I am part of a group of 65+ political scientists and media scholars who today gave birth today to a new organization that responds to the civic emergency we are living through: The Election Coverage and Democracy Network.

These are our recommendations. 1/ mediafordemocracy.org
This group came together very quickly. We held one Zoom call, found we were on the same page, and set to work. The goal was to take what we learned as scholars and researchers and give non-partisan guidance on best practice to the people who are reporting on this election.

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Or this one: "When voters and election administrators are the protagonists of election coverage, the public wins." More here: mediafordemocracy.org 3/
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Some of you know I have been pushing an alternative approach to election coverage, the "citizens agenda" model. It is slowly starting to emerge at the local level (the national press is not interested.) Here is @WBEZ in Chicago putting it into practice. wbez.org/stories/wbez-c…
The editor of the @bangordailynews is @DSMacLeod. He writes in to say his newspaper is also taking a "citizens agenda" approach. "Here's our coverage so far..." bangordailynews.com/topic/citizens…
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I may be proven wrong, but I think the debates will be a fact-checking fail. Nothing like a real time check on Trump's firehose of falsehood will unfold. At best we'll see symbolic pushback on one or two lies, and his reaction will introduce more lies. 1/
Some reasons I think that: the sheer volume of lies Trump is able to broadcast in a single answer to question about, say, mail-in voting; the blowback from his defenders that each moderator knows is coming if they try it; the asymmetry factor, meaning— cjr.org/political_pres… 2/
— it will feel like bias if Trump is corrected a lot and Biden is not for lack of cause; the manifest need to move on; the weak precedent set by White House correspondents on live fact-checking (true, the debates are a different setting, but even so...) cnn.com/2020/08/20/pol… 3/
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Most of you know me as a press critic. But I have other lives as a professor at NYU. I teach grad students about innovation in journalism. I study the digital transformation of the press. And I run projects that agitate for change.

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