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Permalink | Email this | CommentsIt’s now a given in today’s information environment that major natural disasters, acts of violence or other big news events will spawn a flood of misinformation. It’s spread by nefarious actors seeking to sow chaos as well as those who just don’t know better and are looking to amplify their agendas at a time when people are paying attention.
Whatever the motive, unfolding tragedies give misinformers a moment to break through, putting fact-checkers and other journalists on alert to either debunk the false information or, at the very least, avoid repeating it.
The Amazon forest fires provide a solid case study.
As Cristina reported for Poynter, Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio and Cristiano Ronaldo were among the celebrities who posted old photos or out-of-context images on Twitter or Instagram to pressure the Brazilian government to take action against the fire. Ronaldo, the Portuguese soccer star, posted a photo on Instagram that was actually taken in Rio Grande do Sul, in the southern part of Brazil, in 2013.
Brazilan President Jair Bolsonaro, in a nationally televised speechdefending his handling of the fire, called out those who would post “unproven” data or messages, saying it wouldn’t help solve the problem. Later, though, he tweeted an image that had been taken in 2014 to show how the Brazilian air forces were combating the fires.
Similarly, false rumors were spread widely after shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. And those rumors continue.
In a piece for (Poynter-owned) PolitiFact, Daniel explains how misinformation is gaining a foothold in private messaging apps like Apple iMessage and Snapchat. Messages on these platforms, Daniel wrote, are obscured from the public eye, making it harder for journalists to debunk them, though some are screenshotted and posted to more public social media platforms.
In breaking news situations, the sheer number of social media posts creates a rich environment for hoaxers, who hijack popular hashtags and keywords to amplify their views.
The spread of fires in the Amazon region, for example, was the topic of 10.2 million tweets posted between Aug. 18 and 23, with 4.3 million of those just on Friday. According to data scientists at the Universidade Federal do EspÃrito Santo in the southeastern part of Brazil, the online activity related to the environmental devastation was similar to levels usually seen after terrorist attacks.
Some journalists like BuzzFeed’s Jane Lytvynenko have made it their specialty to jump into debunking mode when there is a breaking news event to identify such misinformation in real time.
Such work helps not only the public, but other journalists as well, so they can spend less time disproving things and more time reporting on actual developments and explaining the underlying issues.
Natália Leal, director of content for the Brazilian fact-checker Agência Lupa, expressed that exact concern in her conversation with Cristina this week.
“Instead of debating about solutions for the fires in the Amazon, which are pretty serious, people might spend time and effort pointing out what is true and what is not,” she said. “We don’t need that. We don’t need to use old photos or out-of-context pictures to show how serious the situation is.”
Facebook is tightening its rules for political advertisements, it announced Wednesday, requiring organizations that purchase the ads to take steps to verify their identities. One expert told The New York Times that the move represented “incremental baby steps forward.”
Police in Singapore are investigating rumors being spread via video and text messages about gang activity. It’s the latest action the government has taken against the spread of online misinformation, which is outlawed in Singapore.
A campaign to boycott Olive Garden emerged on Twitter after a professor falsely tweeted that the restaurant donated to Donald Trump’s campaign. Newsweek noticed that it was just the latest in aboycott trend, or what Reason magazine called “conspicuous non-consumption.”
When Axios reported this week that President Donald Trump questioned whether nuclear bombs could be used to prevent hurricanes from hitting the United States, journalists came out in force to defuse the idea.
Trump, in a tweet, called the story ridiculous, and “just more FAKE NEWS!”
The Axios reporter, Jonathan Swan, stood by the piece.
Because the Axios report was based on anonymous sources, it was hard to check the story itself. But for fact-checkers, the question of whether hurricanes could be nuked was like candy to a toddler. We are choosing their collective work to highlight this week.
In his original report, Swan did a good job of explaining the history of this idea, and its implausibility.
Fact-checkers took it further.
“Bombs won’t stop hurricanes,” PolitiFact wrote in a piece that explained the history and science of the idea. The Washington Post also contextualized the story. National Geographic did a step-back piece on how scientists have looked to stop hurricanes, as did Vox and Wired.
CNN asked a scientist about it. He wrote that he was less interested in debunking the idea than in explaining why it keeps coming up. BBC and other networks went to the U.S. government agency that studies the atmosphere.
What we liked: The range of angles this story generated was impressive. If the nuke-hurricanes idea isn’t dead by now, it never will be.
The Arab Weekly reported that a Tunisian news outlet is the first from the country to join the IFCN. That was news to us! Baybars Orsek, IFCN’s director, and his predecessor, Alexios Mantzarlis, both raised questions about the report and denied the news onTwitter.
The New York Times ran a lengthy profile of The Western Journal, a website with a long track record of publishing misinformation on social media.
PolitiFact turned 12 years old last week. And editor Angiel Holanpointed out what she considers its biggest strength.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon has been unable or unwilling to police thousands of mislabeled products on its site.
The feud between Snopes and Christian satire site The Babylon Bee continues, this time with an editorial from the Bee’s editor in chief in the Wall Street Journal.
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani promoted a long-discreditedconspiracy theory about Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered in July 2016.
The use of social media by the Chinese government has drawn heightened scrutiny. Now The New York Times reports that LinkedIn is a prime hunting ground for foreign agents trying to recruit assets.
Also in the Times, Carolyn Kylstra explained in an op-ed how the news media’s reporting on celebrities’ opinions on vaccines could amplify false medical information.
Students at Budapest’s Central European University (whom Daniel taught earlier this year) have published several projects related to fact-checking and misinformation, both in Hungary and around the world. Check them out.
That’s it for this week! Feel free to send feedback and suggestions to factually@poynter.org.
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You might have heard: The New York Times created an “Obits Diversity Analysis Tool,” to help it track and increase obituaries written for women (Daily Beast)
But did you know: Obituaries help keep local newspapers afloat (Axios)
Obituaries are one of the last consistent revenue streams for local newspapers. According to data from local obituary and advertising placement firm Adpay, about $500 million in total annual revenue comes from obituaries, with more than a million paid obituaries created annually. For context, the newspaper market in the U.S. brings in roughly $25 billion in advertising and subscriptions combined. However, digital and social media increasingly present an alternative to newspaper obituaries. To stave off any loss in obit revenue, some newspapers have begun condensing death notices to just a few short words for free, in the hopes that people would pay extra for fuller obituaries.
+ Earlier: “Why aren’t we treating the obituary pages, from a design and editing perspective, as one of the most important sections of the newspaper? We might joke about it, but what could be more important than the deaths of loyal readers’ contemporaries?” Hearst VP Matt DeRienzo on “radically serving” print’s most loyal audience (Editor & Publisher); The Greeley Tribune in Colorado has a daily (digital) obit newsletter that it says has more than 1,000 subscribers with a 50 percent open rate, the highest at the paper
+ Noted: Funders have given Facebook a deadline to share data with researchers or they’re pulling out (BuzzFeed News); The Washington Post introduces new Spanish-language opinion section (Washington Post); Administrators of the Slack group Journalists of Color win ONA Community Award (ONA19); Google moves to simplify, standardize content policies for publishers (Search Engine Land)
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Make the transition from advertising to reader revenue
In our report “What it takes to shift a news organization to reader revenue,” we examine the critical elements that must be in place to build and maintain a successful subscription program. Find out what you’re doing — or not doing — that could be hindering reader revenue.
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Making journalism more ‘memberful’ (Membership Puzzle Project)
Crowdsourced reporting projects are great, but what about finding ways to regularly incorporate your audience’s knowledge and expertise into your journalism? The Membership Puzzle Project compiled examples from news organizations that do this well at each stage of the publishing process: planning, research and reporting, editing and fact-checking, and distribution. “We’re seeing it’s possible that a unique style of journalism can be built from these and other routines,” write Emily Goligoksi and Jay Rosen. “It’s also possible that your organization can grow faster. Really. And produce better stories.”
+ How to succeed in a temporary news leadership role (RTDNA)
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News site offers readers a chance to win £3,000 for pledging not to use phone at wheel (Hold the Front Page)
A local news site in Belfast, Ireland, has partnered with a local insurance company to launch #LeaveThePhoneAlone, a campaign that urges readers to pledge not to use phones at the wheel. Those who take the pledge are entered into a prize draw to win £3,000. The campaign idea was born after Belfast Live conducted a reader survey in which 88% of readers said they had seen someone using a mobile phone while driving within the previous week, and 30% admitted to looking at their own phones while driving. “From our initial reader survey, the scale of this issue was apparent, and we felt we needed to try to make a change amongst people’s attitudes to using their mobile in any way when driving,” said editor Chris Sherrard.
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Overlaying text on images helps draw reader attention (Medium, UX Collective)
Eye-tracking studies show that readers pay more attention to information loaded with visual elements. In a recent experiment at the ride-sharing company Uber, researchers placed a headline over a cover image and found that users spotted it more quickly and spent more time on the first fold than they did when the headline was placed underneath or alongside the image. In fact, in the latter placement, 10% of users did not focus their gaze on the headline, even for a moment. Newsroom web developers could consider presenting headlines this way not only for journalistic content, but for product landing pages as well.
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How writing off the working class has hurt the mainstream media (Nieman Lab)
The drastic decline of the labor beat at most U.S. news outlets set the conditions for the deeply partisan media we have today, writes Christopher R. Martin. Over the last half-century, newspapers began to pursue higher-income audiences that typically worked in white-collar jobs, covering their upscale lifestyles and neglecting the working class. This marketing pivot left us with two problems, says Martin: “First, the news media usually look at the working class only through the lens of a political news story, not through the lens of a labor or workplace story. Second, the news media typically consider the ‘working class’ not in its entirety, but just in the stereotypical white male form, which nicely serves the purposes of divisive politicians who seek to exploit this image and divide working-class people on every other dimension: race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and citizenship.”
+ Earlier: Covering poor and working-class communities: What to avoid and how to get it right (Journalist’s Resource)
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A solutions approach to photojournalism (Journalism.co.uk)
In partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network and the Message in a Photo Foundation, the World Press Photo Foundation has launched the Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative, which helps journalists take a solutions approach to a visual project. “For 65 years, we have run an annual photo contest and what is often selected as the best, particularly for say, Photo of the Year, often deals only with the problem,” says David Campbell, director of programs and outreach at WPPF. “If you can capture all the problems with a photo, why can’t you capture the solutions?”
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