Fact-checking’s GIFs and videogames: information doesn’t need to be boring
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- Al Jazeera’s latest newsgame takes players inside the cyber conflict in Syria. Senior correspondent Juliana Ruhfus explains the concept behind ‘#HACKED: Syria’s Electronic Armies’. “If then people learn as a result of that about other things like internet security or journalism, all the better. I think that’s what a truly immersive and interactive experience can do, you learn more from it than you would if you were reading or watching a film.”
- Argentinian fact-checking website Chequeado is always looking for ways to broaden its audience. This summer, they decided to try GIFs.
- In the Chicago Police Department, if the bosses say it didn’t happen, it didn’t happen: a must-read four part investigation of Chicago police corruption, by Jamie Kalven on The Intercept.
- We remember Anna Politkovskaya, killed 10 years ago. A decade after her assassination, news organisations in Russia increasingly avoid topics that could anger the Kremlin.
- Twitter shouldn’t let itself become a tool for tyrants, writes The Washington Post.
“Turkey is pressing Twitter to silence journalists, and Twitter must resist more vigorously. Twitter is a powerful force for free expression. ‘The tweets must flow,’ the company likes to say. But they don’t always flow, as freedom of speech and democracy are in retreat around the globe.”
- Facebook users are more likely to get news that fits their political beliefs — but younger voters don’t necessarily realize how much the echo chamber affects them. How Facebook deepens millennials’ confirmation bias.
- Shifting to video advertising may seem simple, but as Facebook’s miscalculation shows, the industry needs to know what viewability really means. One of the great promises of online videos was the potential to measure precisely how effective they were. For the most part, that promise has been achieved. But, what numbers are truly reliable?
- In addition, younger adults prefer to get their news in text, not video, according to new data from Pew Research.
- Social media lessons from The Economist. A year ago, The Economist made a big push into social media. The editorial social media team, led by Community Editor Denise Law, works across different platforms to increase readership. In an interview with WAN-IFRA, she explained what her team has been working on during the past year, and shared some tips on building a successful social media strategy.
- Open Culture: this summer, The New York Public Library released a new app which gives its cardholders the ability to browse, borrow, and read more than 300,000 ebooks from the library’s collections.
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