Hey, where are you going with that post-truth in your hands?
To the extent that there is such a thing as objective truth, I always thought that the “fake news” trend was just an exaggerated new spin put on an old phenomenon that we used to call rumors or hoaxes, with no real new danger. Long before this WPI fellowship,...
Here’s why social media poses no threat to traditional journalism
Will social media really kill journalism? This is a big concern among journalists today. A study by the Pew Research Center suggests social media has become the main source of news online. With more than 2.4 billion internet users, nearly 64.5 percent receive breaking...
Out with the old, in with the… news?
The first newsroom I worked in had rats, and I’m not just speaking about the bosses. It was in an old two-story shophouse in Phnom Penh, and we frequently saw vermin in the kitchen. The computers were out of the 1980s and the walls were stained. On humid, rainy...
Small towns matter
Earlier this year, President Trumps named Baltimore “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” in a racist attack on Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings. The president suggested that conditions in Cummings’ district are “far worse and more dangerous” than...
When lies trump truth – the press should call them by their name
Legacy U.S. newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post are using unprecedented language in their political copy with words like “lie” and “racist”. “We’d never used the word ‘lie’ before we had Trump,” Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York...
Our 4/14 recorded webinar on #disinformation featuring @BostonJoan, @andraspe & @mdmontgomery is now posted to our website for anyone who missed out! #WPIDisinformationWebinar
https://worldpressinstitute.org/news/the-spread-of-online-disinformation/
Great webinar on the global scale of disinformation, got to hear from the incredible @BostonJoan and about the impressive work of @andraspe in Hungary. So important to see the power of bad info.
Webinar on WPI site.
& follow and support @direkt36 — investigative journalism!! https://twitter.com/worldpressinst/status/1382346097549512704
Thanks again to our partners at the America for Bulgaria Foundation & @AEJBulgaria, plus our experts @BostonJoan & @andraspe & moderator @mdmontgomery for making #WPIDisinformationWebinar happen.