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Ciara GreeneJune 30, 2021

Does reading fake news actually change people’s behavior? This Covid-19 study says yes, a bit — but potentially an important bit

“Some participants even developed false memories about the fake stories they had read…’Remembering’ previously hearing a fake COVID-19 story seemed to make some people in our study more likely to act in a certain way.”

Laura Hazard OwenJuly 31, 2020

How much does fake coronavirus news affect people’s real-life health behavior?

And what about Trump’s hydroxychloroquine and bleach proclamations?

Laura Hazard OwenApril 20, 2018

Can Facebook beat back the fake news in Ireland’s upcoming vote on abortion?

Plus: What people who like fact-checking are like, a new “digital deception” newsletter, and Facebook expands its fact-checking partnerships beyond the West.

The Times (of London) is expanding from digital to print (in Ireland)

Joseph LichtermanMarch 31, 2015

Why Storyful is expanding its business to work with brands

It’s one element of a broader expansion for the social news agency, which is also growing its product team and working on improving its core trend-detection technology.

Joseph LichtermanMarch 18, 2015

How The Irish Times developed its new (very relaxed) metered paywall

“We could’ve cut our way out of existence in a very orderly way over the next 10 years. But strategically, we saw the need to invest in digital.”

February 22, 2011

Attitudes in the tubes: An Irish site mines Twitter for political trends

November 17, 2008

Lab Book Club: Crowdsourcing from across the Atlantic