Some would agree! Others would disagree! But that’s the challenge of creating a simple green/red label for a news site: You’ve got to have a cut-off line somewhere, and for NewsGuard, it’s somewhere south of Fox News.
One finding: “Need-to-know material converts (related to how to live your life, understand the world), while nice-to-know (guides, arts, reviews) converts badly but is key for retention.”
Well, maybe not easily, but an NYU team is building a tool to save the entirety of a news app (including underlying libraries and frameworks), as well as a digital repository to hold them for future audiences.
“There may be two partners who think they can’t work together, but really you could have a meeting or two and talk things out and resolve some questions — and then they actually could work together.”
“A dormant, stationary Android phone…communicated location information to Google 340 times during a 24-hour period, or at an average of 14 data communications per hour.”
Users forward dubious messages to a chatbot; volunteer editors evaluate their credibility; the bot answers back to the user (and anyone wondering in the future).
Han, Kirsten. "Line is another chat app rife with spam, scams, and bad information. The volunteer-supported Cofacts is fact-checking them in the open." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 21 Aug. 2018. Web. 11 Dec. 2024.
APA
Han, K. (2018, Aug. 21). Line is another chat app rife with spam, scams, and bad information. The volunteer-supported Cofacts is fact-checking them in the open. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 11, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/08/line-is-another-chat-app-rife-with-spam-scams-and-bad-information-the-volunteer-supported-cofacts-is-fact-checking-them-in-the-open/
Chicago
Han, Kirsten. "Line is another chat app rife with spam, scams, and bad information. The volunteer-supported Cofacts is fact-checking them in the open." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified August 21, 2018. Accessed December 11, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/08/line-is-another-chat-app-rife-with-spam-scams-and-bad-information-the-volunteer-supported-cofacts-is-fact-checking-them-in-the-open/.
Wikipedia
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