Public e-seminar on media practices and the radical imagination media/anthropology by John Postill By Veronica Barassi via EASA Media Anthropology Network mailing list We will be launching our next e-seminar on Tuesday 25 October 2016 at 00:00 GMT. If you are new to the list, our e-seminars run for a period of 2 weeks and … Read more
The story of Snopes Boing Boing by David Pescovitz All lies lead to the truth. For over 20 years, Snopes.com has been the Web’s primary bullshit detector and debunker, from death by Pop Rocks to political lies. We need Snopes more than ever. For a Webby Awards exclusive feature, I commissioned talented journalist Rob Walker to … Read more
Digital Defenders: a free open-licensed booklet for kids about privacy and crypto Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow European Digital Rights has created a free, CC-licensed kids’ booklet about privacy called Digital Defenders. How Israel Became a Hub for Surveillance Technology The Intercept by Sharon Weinberger In 1948, the year Israel was founded, the Mer Group was established … Read more
Hillary Clinton Tops 2015-16 Islamist Money List Philadelphia – October 20, 2016 – The Middle East Forum’s “Islamist Money in Politics” (IMIP) project is releasing the top-ten recipients of 2015-16 campaign contributions from individuals who subscribe to the same Islamic supremacism as Khomeini, Bin Laden, and ISIS. Hillary Clinton tops the list, raking in $41,165 … Read more
Google will now help you fact-check Trump (and other lies) The Next Web by Napier Lopez Google appears to be just as fed up with the constant lies during the presidential election as we are, so now it’s helping you set the facts straight. The company today introduced a new feature that will tag and help … Read more
To the list of reasons why the 2016 presidential contest in the United States has been especially notable and newsworthy, we might add the number of superlatives surrounding it. Headlines refer to the two leading contenders—Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald J. Trump—as the “least trusted” and “most unfavorable candidates ever.” Despite the unpopularity of the … Read more
TWITTER TRANSPARENCY REPORT: Turkey Submits Highest Volume of Removal Requests to Twitter Bianet :: English Turkey has been listed as the country with the greatest number of removal requests in Twitter’s first biannual Transparency Report of 2016. The Growing Problem of Bots That Fight Online MIT Technology Review The way software agents interact on the Web is … Read more
WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer) The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald Three of the four media outlets that received and published large numbers of secret NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden — The Guardian, the New York Times, and The Intercept –– have called for the U.S. government to allow the … Read more
https://niemanlablounge.herokuapp.com/ Join our Nieman Lab Lounge Slack to talk about the ONA16 conference Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang This week, most of the Nieman Lab staff is in Denver for ONA 2016, a massive three-day gathering with well over a thousand attendees, multiple simultaneous sessions morning to evening, and receptions and parties every night. Even … Read more
5 trends to watch in mobile-first news Journalism.co.uk by Alli Shultes As mobile audiences continue to grow, keep an eye on these five trends emerging from research by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Digital journalists, online crowds and training social media first responders First Draft News by Verification Junkie In the immediate aftermath of … Read more
Turkey among initiators of significant UN resolution on Internet and human rights Turkey was one of the joint initiators of a significant resolution on “the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet” which was adopted at the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) on July 1. BitTorrent Protocol Turns 15 Years Old Today TorrentFreak “My … Read more
Is Istanbul Safe? What Travelers Should Know. New York Times A suicide attack Tuesday night at Istanbul Ataturk Airport killed dozens of people and wounded more than 200. Here’s what travelers should know … Brussels to Istanbul: Two airports, two bloody attacks – CNN Jihad in Istanbul – Wall Street Journal CBS News: Istanbul Suicide Bombers … Read more
Panama Papers: Pirates Prepare to Takeover Iceland (Update) TorrentFreak by Andy From August 2015, an anonymous source began leaking around 11.5 million secret documents created by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to German news outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). Chinese Censors Erase #PanamaPapers Evidence From Web Global Voices Online by Oiwan Lam Relatives of current top leader … Read more
Google’s International Women’s Day Doodle celebrates the remarkable women of the future Mashable! by Rachel Thompson National Security Experts Weigh in on the “Apple v. FBI” Battle – “If [the FBI is] lying, that would be a very, very big deal.” Upvoted by Nick Dyen “Apple is being mischievous here,” two national security experts at the Brookings … Read more
Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects The Intercept by Dan Froomkin In the wake of the Paris attack, intelligence officials and sympathizers upset by the Edward Snowden leaks and the spread of encrypted communications havetried to blame Snowden for the terrorists’ ability to keep their plans secret from law enforcement. Yet news emerging from … Read more