Social: How social media spreads falsehoods
Social media remains the world’s greatest frictionless platform for the spread of propaganda and misinformation.
Social: The serious problem and challenge of misinformation on social media
Misinformation (things that are not true) is widespread on social media. Often heavily promoted, untrue claims become viewed as “truth”. There is no easy solution to this problem.
Media: The high prevalence of bias in media reporting
Media stories have gender bias based on the topic. Travel, entertainment, and “domestic”/home stories are highly biased around women, while business and adventure stories are highly biased around men.
Europeans claim U.S. has banned 23,000 books
But it is not true. Not even close.
The BBC mischaracterizes Twitter’s old Blue check
The BBC does not understand the old Twitter Bluecheck, which was restricted only to the elite.
Financial idiocy on X
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Social media: Emotional and Touching Videos are Often Fake
Touching videos, like this, of an elderly teacher reading a thank you note from a former student, who turns out to be her surgeon who has saved her life – are typically staged productions.
Public Apology Generator
When you screw up in public or on social media, here is a handy algorithm to generate your apology.
Social: Frequently shared photos are misleading
A misleading image is shared to indicate that cities used to be beautiful and now they are ugly.
Social: Telling a straight up lie for propaganda
Photos of people sunbathing are presented as an illustration of lazy American workers, cutting work. But that is not what the photos show – in fact, its college students just after the spring semester ended.