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The Guardian
Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
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Digiday
Incorrect predictions on Election Day might have shocked readers, but they don't accurately reflect how most publishers use data journalism.
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The Information
It recently dawned on me that we are in an age of information imperialism. Small communities of people used to have their own private stores of knowledge that were distinct to their local communities. That local knowledge defined and bonded them. The internet broadly has opened all of those ...
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CNN
Brian Stelter's essay about the perils of "fake news:" He says it breeds confusion, and people in power benefit from confusion, so "refuse to be confused."
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The Atlantic
A new history of the essay gets the genre all wrong, and in the process endorses a misleading idea of knowledge.
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CNN
Kellyanne Conway's use of a strange phrase, "alternative facts," was reflective of something real -- a new administration which feels, on day three, that it is already under siege from unfair reporters.
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The Artifice
The history of trolling is a history of rhetoric. This particular history of rhetoric is steeped in philosophy and mythology, spanning across ...
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The New York Times
Our confirmation bias kicks in, causing us to seek out evidence to prove what we already believe.
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Buzz Machine
“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.” — Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) “Fake news” is merely a symptom of greater social ills....
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The Atlantic
People who share dangerous ideas don’t necessarily believe them.
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Facebook Blog
People tell us they don't like stories that are misleading, sensational or spammy.
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Business Insider
If you see a video of US President Donald Trump today, you can be pretty sure it's real. That won't be the case for long.
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Wired
The Pentagon's blue-sky division asks for help in figuring out what research to believe.
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Pew Research Center
People deal in varying ways with tensions about what information to trust and how much they want to learn. Some are interested and engaged with information; others are wary and stressed.
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VICE
A user-friendly application has resulted in an explosion of convincing face-swap porn.
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Arstechnica
SXSW: NRK’s dedicated tech team employs “open source” tactics to fight trolling.
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The Conversation
As the internet-connected world reels from revelations about personalized manipulation based on Facebook data, a scholar of virtual reality warns there's an even bigger crisis of trust on the horizon.
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The Daily Beast
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Jack Fisher Books
Picture the following scenario that may or may not end up being a common occurrence in the near future. It's not a thought experiment. It's not a prediction either. It's just a possible manifestation of what our future might hold. It's late at night and you decide to check out some porn. You struggle to decide…
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The Atlantic
The digital manipulation of video may make the current era of “fake news” seem quaint.
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Vox
Doctored photos can easily create false memories. What happens when there’s fake video?
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Wired
Machine-made images and videos offer novel ways to spread fake content online, according to AI experts and neuroscientists
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MIT Technology Review
Think that AI will help put a stop to fake news? The US military isn’t so sure. The Department of Defense is funding a project that will try to determine whether the increasingly real-looking fake video and audio generated by artificial intelligence might soon be impossible to distinguish from the real thing—even for another AI…
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Project Syndicate
When it comes to tackling the "fake news" problem, there is no silver bullet. The modern information ecosystem is like a Rubiks Cube: a different move is required to solve each individual square, and success requires getting all sides in place.
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Longreads
Michiko Kakutani is interested in how the distinction between fact and fiction has blurred — and how this makes us all complicit.
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Betanews
As an analyst, I’d like to have a universal fact checker. Something like the carbon monoxide detectors on each level of my home. Something that would sound an alarm when there’s danger of intellectual asphyxiation from choking on the baloney put forward by certain sales people, news organizations, governments, and educators, for example.
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The Guardian
In his new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the bestselling author of Sapiens and Homo Deus turns his attention to the problems we face today
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MIT Technology Review
The first forensics tools for catching revenge porn and fake news created with AI have been developed through a program run by the US Defense Department. Forensics experts have rushed to find ways of detecting videos synthesized and manipulated using machine learning because the technology makes it far easier to create convincing fake videos that could…
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Ozy
Human swarms paired with algorithms are detecting emotions — and lies.
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Science Daily
Ever wonder why flat earthers, birthers, climate change and Holocaust deniers stick to their beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary? New findings suggest that feedback, rather than hard evidence, boosts people's sense of certainty when learning new things or trying to tell right from wrong.
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Politico
Society’s shared middle ground is quickly turning into a battlefield. What will that do to democracy?
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Longreads
Civility will never defeat fascism, no matter what The Economist thinks.
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BPS
By Christian Jarrett. The results help explain why debating controversial issues can feel futile.
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Wired
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner talks with WIRED editor in chief Nicholas Thompson about the future of work and finding jobs.
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PsyPost
New research provides evidence that delusion-prone individuals, dogmatic individuals, and religious fundamentalists are more likely to believe fake news. ...
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BuzzFeed
The feature, currently available to some users in India, will eventually be available globally, although YouTube declined to provide a timeline.
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EurekAlert!
New study in Nature Communications finds increasingly narrow peaks of collective attention over time, supporting a 'social acceleration' occurring across different domains.
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Financial Times
This storm will pass. But the choices we make now could change our lives for years to come
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The New Yorker
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
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Medium
Wild and seemingly crazy conspiracy theories can spring from any stressful or disruptive event or phenomenon, as people seek tangible explanations for the invisible or the inexplicable. Belief in…
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C.M. Bradley
Since our public discourse seems to increasingly lack grace and civility, in this video we investigate the general value and necessity of talking to people t...
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TED
Only if you are truly open to the possibility of being wrong can you ever learn, says researcher Alex Edmans. In an insightful talk, he explores how confirma...
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Big Think
How the marketplace of ideas went rogueNew videos DAILY: https://bigth.inkJoin Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https:...
