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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
Mark Zuckerberg responds to fake news controversy and outlines projects Facebook is working on to combat the issue — A lot of you have asked what we're doing about misinformation, so I wanted to give an update. — The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Social media giants including Facebook have a responsibility to help defend truth, as Trump and some of his advisers have embraced and spread falsehoods — Friday night, the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg went on his vast social network to convince an expanding chorus of critics …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook should hire an executive editor and give that person the resources, power, and staff to make sound editorial decisions — Two days after the election of Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg found himself on the hot seat. — At a tech conference, an interviewer grilled the Facebook chief executive …
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Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
How two fake news writers, self-proclaimed yellow journalists, say they found success sharing stories with shock value on Facebook — LONG BEACH, Calif. — Fewer than 2,000 readers are on his website when Paris Wade, 26, awakens from a nap, reaches for his laptop and thinks he needs to, as he puts it, “feed” his audience.
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John Herrman / New York Times:
Fixation on Fake News Overshadows Waning Trust in Real Reporting — Something is deeply wrong when the pope's voice, reputation and influence can be borrowed by a source that describes itself as “a fantasy news site” to claim that he has endorsed a presidential candidate, and then be amplified …
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Jeff Jarvis / Medium:
John Borthwick of Betaworks and Jeff Jarvis of CUNY offer ideas and resources for tackling fake news on Facebook, Twitter, and Google — We—John Borthwick and Jeff Jarvis—want to offer constructive suggestions for what the platforms—Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WeChat …
New York Times:
A look at how fake news on Facebook has impacted foreign elections and political movements in Indonesia, the Philippines, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere
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Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
How a tweet with false claims from an account with about 40 followers got amplified by a Reddit group and partisan media to become a talking point for Trump — How a misinformed Twitter post the night after the presidential election fueled a nationwide conspiracy theory and became a talking point …
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Christina Xu:
In China, where all media is distrusted, US election misinformation proliferates unchecked — Weibo pushes out about a dozen general news notifications a day about everything from trending topics to celebrity gossip to major world events. Monday afternoon, on my way to the subway to meet …
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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Profile of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was vaulted into the mainstream national dialogue after he interviewed Trump during the election — Last December, amid the jumbled Republican presidential nomination scrum, Donald Trump carved out a half an hour for a live video interview …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Incoming AP executive editor Sally Buzbee on AP's election coverage, her plans for AP, slow corrections, more — Sally Buzbee, who takes over as executive editor of the Associated Press from Kathleen Carroll in January, has served as Washington bureau chief for the past six years …
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
News organizations in Philadelphia team up to report on problems and possible solutions for prison recidivism, with help from the Solutions Journalism Network — “With big topics like this, you really have to look at the solutions with the same rigor as you would when you're investigating the problems."
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Donald Trump's digital director, Brad Parscale, says Facebook helped generate most of the campaign's $250M in online fundraising — Mark Zuckerberg is trying hard to convince voters that Facebook had no nefarious role in this election. But according to President-elect Donald Trump's digital …
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