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Bookmark or Share- Journalists are suffering mental health consequences from covering ...Early results from a new study on mental health among journalists covering the pandemic were so worrisome that the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism decided to publish the preliminary data. "This is early data on a vital topic," wrote Meera Selva, the study's co-author and …
- Yes, deepfakes can make people believe in misinformation - Nieman LabWe demonstrate that political misinformation in the form of videos synthesized by deep learning (“deepfakes”) can convince the American public of scandals that never occurred at alarming rates — nearly 50% of a representative sample — but no more so than equivalent misinformation conveyed through existing news formats like textual headlines or audio recordings.
- Fake news and bots may be worrisome, but their political power is ...Fake news and bots may be worrisome, but their political power is overblown The New York Times / Brendan Nyhan / Feb 13, 2018 “It’s very hard to change people’s minds, especially when so many are already committed partisans.”
- Should we consider fake news another form of (not particularly ...“Most forms of political persuasion seem to have little effect at all.” Dartmouth’s Brendan Nyhan writes in The New York Times that it isn’t that easy to change people’s votes in an election, in an Upshot post titled “Fake news and bots may be worrisome, but their political power is overblown.
- Alberto Cairo: Data journalism needs to up its own standardsThe data visualization expert argues that FiveThirtyEight and Vox have overpromised and underdelivered — and that they need to treat their data with more scientific rigor.
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