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Craig Silverman, ProPublicaFebruary 25, 2025

As Facebook abandons fact-checking, it’s also offering bonuses for viral content

Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.

Joshua BentonJanuary 9, 2025

That time Rupert Murdoch endorsed Jimmy Carter (no, really)

It was the first time many Americans saw Rupert Murdoch using his news outlets to advance his interests — and a lesson in how a media mogul’s outside financial ties can taint the editorial product.

“A hard hit for the fact-checking community and journalism”: Meta eliminates fact-checking in the U.S.

Sarah ScireNovember 18, 2024

Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization

A new Pew Research Center report also found nearly 40% of U.S. adults under 30 regularly get news from news influencers.

Joshua BentonSeptember 25, 2024

What would Project 2025 do for (or to) journalism?

From defunding NPR and PBS to kicking reporters out of the White House, it’s an array of conservative priorities and Trumpian retreads.

Anya SchiffrinSeptember 3, 2024

Would a tech tax be a fair way to make Google and Meta pay for the news they distribute and profit from?

“Every country needs to address the theft of intellectual property that diminishes both the incentives and ability to produce the news on which we all — including the platforms — depend. The bargaining codes were a start.”

Joshua BentonJuly 23, 2024

Browser cookies, as unkillable as cockroaches, won’t be leaving Google Chrome after all

Google — which planned to block third-party cookies in 2022, then 2023, then 2024, then 2025 — now says it won’t block them after all. A big win for adtech, but what about publishers?

Sophie CulpepperJuly 16, 2024

Could social media support healthy online conversations? New_ Public is working on it

“We talk to a lot of towns where there is no newspaper anymore; there’s no community center anymore; the town store shut down. And this is kind of it.”

Laura Hazard OwenMay 14, 2024

People who got off Facebook for 6 pivotal weeks in 2020 may have been less likely to vote for Trump

“We do think our results can inform readers’ priors about the potential effects of social media in the final weeks of high-profile national elections.”

Laura Hazard OwenMay 8, 2024

Screenshots are one big winner of Meta’s news ban in Canada

“We observe a dramatic increase in posts containing screenshots of Canadian news stories in the post-ban period.”

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