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Articles tagged accuracy (13)

“Elections, it seems, amplify the influence of partisanship on the perception of truth.”
Highly impulsive people who lean conservative are more likely to share false news stories. They have a desire to create chaos and won’t be deterred by fact-checkers.
“Just one previous exposure is enough to make information seem more credible.”
Plus: Reuters cans its Next makeover, the news on NSA surveillance and Syria coverage, and the rest of the week’s media-tech top reads.
A year after a radical redesign — favoring atomized, live, streaming news over traditional stories — ITV online director Julian March explains how the site generated massive audience growth.
From Lockerbie to Richard Jewell to anthrax: The Boston Marathon bombings were far from the first incident to spark inaccurate reporting about an alleged suspect. Here’s what the case law tells us about liability.
Plus: The backlash over Instagram’s new terms of service, a new foundation to support transparency journalism, and the rest of the week’s media news.
Plus: Pulse and Flipboard’s competing news aggregation models, BuzzFeed’s attribution issues, and the rest of this week’s media and tech news.
Plus: Postmortem analysis of the SOPA/PIPA fight, more discussion on truth vigilantes and iBooks, and the rest of the week’s big stories in journalism and tech.
Plus the week’s required reading: the luxuries of print, a case for newspaper destabilization, and more. Mark Coddington