Alastair Reid Profile picture
Journalist. Digital editor @firstdraftnews, social newsgathering, verification and disinfo, formerly @PA, @journalismnews DMs open 📩
Apr 21, 2023 15 tweets 9 min read
Outrageous setting for this powerhouse panel here at #ijf23 with @CharlieBeckett @emilybell @mathewi and @mitrakalita. What now for journalism as the platforms move on? Image Twitter is now "a train wreck but where every car is a dumpster and they're all on fire. And it's crashing" is a helluva way to kick things off from @mathewi #ijf23
Jun 19, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
That Trump video is source hacking in real-time: Getting free press with fake and/or outrageous material. It's hacking the media. Same with the red triangle. @BostonJoan's report on the subject should be a must read: datasociety.net/library/source… We see the same thing in the UK, the fake BLM flyers in Scotland, the fake Brexit notebooks last September. It's very hard to stop because if news orgs don't cover it then it's "a cover up", and if they *do* cover it then it's amplifyimg falsehoods
May 5, 2020 13 tweets 4 min read
CAN PEOPLE WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT AUTOMATION OR CO-ORDINATION PLEASE STOP TWEETING ABOUT AUTOMATION OR CO-ORDINATION IT'S ALL JUST A COPY AND PASTE OF THIS FACEBOOK POST WHICH HAS BEEN SHARED 100,000+ TIMES