For the past decade, location-tagged tweets have been a useful (if imperfect) tool for anyone trying to connect time, place, and information in ways that told us something about the world.
“More than a quarter of the content shared by the Bharatiya Janata Party and a fifth of the content shared by the Indian National Congress is junk news.”
Plus: A revived hoax on social media leads to attacks on Roma in France, Facebook bans white nationalism, and how “Suspected Human Trafficker, Child Predator May Be in Our Area” became the most-shared Facebook story of 2019.
“The dreck is conflicted single-source stories that should not be called journalism but should be PR and advertising drivel, because it is simply taking spoon-feeding in an unquestioning way and fawning over it.”
Schmidt, Christine. "Health coverage loses its booster shot after funding runs out for this media critic." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 6 Mar. 2019. Web. 22 Oct. 2024.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2019, Mar. 6). Health coverage loses its booster shot after funding runs out for this media critic. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved October 22, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/health-coverage-loses-its-booster-shot-after-funding-runs-out-for-this-media-critic/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "Health coverage loses its booster shot after funding runs out for this media critic." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 6, 2019. Accessed October 22, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/health-coverage-loses-its-booster-shot-after-funding-runs-out-for-this-media-critic/.
Wikipedia
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