“As a news organization, it’s perhaps an opportunity for us to be helping people fill those gaps without forcing them to go to Wikipedia or start Googling things, just to try to get the background they crave on a story.”
“Finding strategies for artfully conveying complex information in ways that break down attention and trust-based barriers represents the most important challenge in our politically tumultuous time.”
The head of a digital publishers’ trade association argues that Facebook can’t rebuild trust while continuing data practices that track its users all across the Internet — and beyond.
BuzzFeed’s fake-news reporter outlines some of the dangers ahead: “We have a human problem on our hands. Our cognitive abilities are in some ways overmatched by what we have created.”
“We’re making the kinds of judgments that we think will be noncontroversial, but still are the kind of judgments that platforms, rightly, don’t want to be making themselves.”
“It’s not so much about gaming Facebook’s algorithm or working with the Facebook changes as much as it is taking advantage of Facebook as a truly social platform.”
Bilton, Ricardo. "Americans say greater access to news sources is actually making it harder to stay informed." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 16 Jan. 2018. Web. 16 Dec. 2024.
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Chicago
Bilton, Ricardo. "Americans say greater access to news sources is actually making it harder to stay informed." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 16, 2018. Accessed December 16, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/01/americans-say-greater-access-to-news-sources-is-actually-making-it-harder-to-stay-informed/.
Wikipedia
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