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Articles tagged Brexit (7)

Stephen CushionNovember 1, 2021

Would enhancing the BBC’s fact-checking strengthen its perceived impartiality?

How broadcasters challenge false or misleading information while maintaining high standards of impartiality has become increasingly challenging.

Rasmus Kleis NielsenMarch 15, 2018

Soft power — not government censorship — is the key to fighting disinformation and “fake news”

“For a soft power approach to disinformation to work, it is critical that all stakeholders do in fact work together…If it fails, cruder responses may be the only ones left. But let’s hope not.”

Ricardo BiltonFebruary 23, 2018

With in-article chat bots, BBC is experimenting with new ways to introduce readers to complex topics

“For us, this is a way to let people read and ask questions at their own pace, instead of having them read through long screens of text. Often people aren’t engaged in stories because they haven’t had the right context.”

Heidi TworekMay 15, 2017

Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and the new old fear of manipulating the masses

“Fears of mass manipulation by new media are as old as mass media themselves. Almost every expansion of media or new media technology provoked paranoia about the contagious emotions of ‘the masses.'”

Joseph LichtermanFebruary 22, 2017

This anti-Brexit newspaper first launched as a pop-up, but it’s doing well enough to continue indefinitely

“If I were a U.S. journalist, I would be looking to launch The Trump Watch.”

Here’s what worked when The Economist tried out “audiograms” to promote its podcasts on Facebook

Shan WangJune 24, 2016

Should it stay or should it go: News outlets scramble to cover Britain’s decision to exit the European Union

Online, readers stayed up for the results: Peak traffic to BBC News, for instance, was around 4 a.m. GMT, and by 11 a.m. BBC.com had received 88 million page views.