When the camera lies: our surveillance society needs a dose of integrity to be reliable
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When the camera lies: our surveillance society needs a dose of integrity to be reliable
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At the beginning of this episode, Sandy Hudson tells Nora Loreto about a podcast on NPR, Invisibilia.
The episodes that I listened to were about an anti-news news website in Stockton, California. How news has shifted and changed.
The Invisibilia episode is entitled, The Chaos Machine: An Endless Hole.
I ended up following this rabbit hole all the way to The View from Somewhere podcast episode featuring a discussion of Hallin’s spheres. Truly fascinating!
Shematologist, MD on Twitter: “How it started. How it’s going. Https://t.co/il5DWFm11W” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved October 10, 2021, from https://twitter.com/acweyand/status/1442304094945873922
Brashier, N. M., & Rand, D. G. (2021). Illusory Truth Occurs Even with Incentives for Accuracy [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/83m9y
Roozenbeek, J., & van der Linden, S. (2019). Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation. Palgrave Communications, 5(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0279-9
Basol, M., Roozenbeek, J., & van der Linden, S. (n.d.). Good News about Bad News: Gamified Inoculation Boosts Confidence and Cognitive Immunity Against Fake News. Journal of Cognition, 3(1), 2. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.91
Bode, L., & Vraga, E. K. (2018). See Something, Say Something: Correction of Global Health Misinformation on Social Media. Health Communication, 33(9), 1131–1140. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2017.1331312
Shahsavari, S., Holur, P., Wang, T., Tangherlini, T. R., & Roychowdhury, V. (2020). Conspiracy in the time of corona: automatic detection of emerging COVID-19 conspiracy theories in social media and the news. Journal of Computational Social Science, 3(2), 279–317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-020-00086-5
BigQuery + UDF = Identifying The Earliest Glimmers Of Covid-19 – The GDELT Project. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://blog.gdeltproject.org/bigquery-udf-identifying-the-earliest-glimmers-of-covid-19/
Announcing The Global Numeric Graph – The GDELT Project. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-global-numeric-graph/
A Timeline Of Infection, Death And Vaccination Count Mentions In The News During Covid-19 Using The Global Numeric Graph – The GDELT Project. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://blog.gdeltproject.org/a-timeline-of-infection-death-and-vaccination-count-mentions-in-the-news-during-covid-19-using-the-global-numeric-graph/
GDELT Summary: Television Explorer: hydroxychloroquine AND (Station:CNN OR Station:FOXNEWS OR Station:MSNBC) AND PublicationDate>=3/1/2020. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/summary/summary?d=iatv&t=summary&k=hydroxychloroquine+&ts=custom&sdt=20200301000000&fs=station%3ACNN&fs=station%3AFOXNEWS&fs=station%3AMSNBC&svt=zoom&swvt=zoom&ssc=yes&sshc=yes&swc=yes&stcl=yes&c=1
Misinformation Alerts - Public Health Communications Collaborative. (n.d.). Public Health Communication Collaborative. Retrieved September 24, 2021, from https://publichealthcollaborative.org/misinformation-alerts/
tagesschau.de. (n.d.). Entwicklung von Impfstoffen: Komplett verdrehte Aussage. tagesschau.de. Retrieved March 2, 2021, from https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/merck-impfstoff-immunitaet-105.html
Mazumdar, S., & Thakker, D. (2020). Citizen Science on Twitter: Using Data Analytics to Understand Conversations and Networks. Future Internet, 12(12), 210. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12120210
Mena, P. (2020). Cleaning Up Social Media: The Effect of Warning Labels on Likelihood of Sharing False News on Facebook. Policy & Internet, 12(2), 165–183. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.214
Anti UX UX Club mentioned Tortoise.
Tortoise is a response to two problems The daily noise: we are overwhelmed by information. The problem isn’t just fake news or junk news, because there’s a lot that’s good – it’s just that there’s so much of it, and so much of it is the same. In a hurry, partial and confusing. Too many newsrooms chasing the news, but missing the story.The power gap: the divide between the powerful and the powerless is widening. We feel locked out. Alarmed by the lack of vision, hungry for leadership in business, technology and society. We believe in responsibility; we care about dignity.
Slow journalism: a refreshing change in the approach to the news.
I first learned about Tortoise from the Anti UX UX Club on Twitter.
SuzeeB🙂. (2021, September 14). Dear vaccinated, We did not take your freedom. The government did. We are not holding your freedoms to ransom. The government is. If we are a danger to you, then your vaccine doesn’t work. If it does, then you should already be free. The government has lied to you. [Tweet]. @NatalieSuB. https://twitter.com/NatalieSuB/status/1437835320628809733
GOP members go “doctor shopping” for Covid-19 deniers. (n.d.). Retrieved September 23, 2021, from https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/09/22/gop-officials-doctor-shopping-reality-check-avlon-newday-vpx.cnn
Sadeque, S. (2021, September 15). Nearly all Fox staffers vaccinated for Covid even as hosts cast doubt on vaccine. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/15/fox-news-vaccines-testing-tucker-carlson
Cleavon MD 💉. (2021, July 22). 46 y.o. Brandon Haynes from #Louisiana died from COVID. "I asked him to take the vaccine & he wouldn’t. The best way I can honor him is to request friends and family members take the vaccine.” Mom provided a vaccine clinic at his funeral #SoulsLostToCovid https://t.co/H8Ljx2NlHc [Tweet]. @Cleavon_MD. https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1418260324042559495
Bai, H. (2021). Fake News Known as Fake Still Changes Beliefs and Leads to Partisan Polarization [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v9gax
Chris Preddie wrong about Pfizer CEO not taking Covid vaccine. (16:45:39.678108+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/health/Chris-Preddie-Pfizer-CEO-Covid-vaccine/
Screenshot of website about Covid-19 vaccine side effects is fake. (16:10:41.471968+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/health/yellow-card-fake-website/
Rutjens, B. T., van der Linden, S., van der Lee, R., & Zarzeczna, N. (2021). A group processes approach to antiscience beliefs and endorsement of “alternative facts.” Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 24(4), 513–517. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211009708
(2) Seth Trueger on Twitter: “maybe, just maybe, VAERS is being flooded with false reports from bad actors with ulterior motives? Https://t.co/HYTYKIOd64” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved August 23, 2021, from https://twitter.com/MDaware/status/1417893813184512004
Bowes, S. M., & Tasimi, A. (2021). Clarifying the Relations between Intellectual Humility and Misinformation Susceptibility. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/x37c5
Apple delays office return to January as Delta variant spreads—Bloomberg | Reuters. (n.d.). Retrieved August 21, 2021, from https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-delays-office-return-least-january-bloomberg-news-2021-08-20
‘Spreading like a virus’: Inside the EU’s struggle to debunk Covid lies | World news | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved August 18, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/17/spreading-like-a-virus-inside-the-eus-struggle-to-debunk-covid-lies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA on Twitter: “1/ PROFOUNDLY DISTURBING clips from a town hall with Arkansas @AsaHutchinson. Q: What’s in the vaccine? A: Here are full ingredient lists: Pfizer: Https://t.co/ZgpaqcIlzg Moderna: Https://t.co/j5uf4uErLB J&J: https://t.co/qsjEO8s4gg https://t.co/OR9sSANR7x” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved August 11, 2021, from https://twitter.com/celinegounder/status/1423002451460907009
agencies, G. staff and. (2021, August 6). CNN fires three employees for coming to work unvaccinated. The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/05/cnn-fires-employees-covid-unvaccinated-office
van der Linden, S., Roozenbeek, J., & Compton, J. (2020). Inoculating Against Fake News About COVID-19. Frontiers in Psychology, 0. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.566790
The Lincoln Project. (2021, July 22). .@Comcast, one of the main sources of revenue for @FoxNews, doesn’t want you to see this ad. Https://t.co/qZ6vtQEDbd [Tweet]. @ProjectLincoln. https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1418239417047789572
Justin Baragona on Twitter: “There seems to be a concerted effort today by Fox’s daytime news shows to promote the vaccines to its audience. Dr. Marc Siegel says ‘the Delta variant needs to be a wake-up call to get vaccinated.’ Anchor John Roberts then directs viewers to the government vaccine website. Https://t.co/T5b21nXCfe” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved August 4, 2021, from https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1417178420950220811
Effron, D. A., & Raj, M. (2020). Misinformation and Morality: Encountering Fake-News Headlines Makes Them Seem Less Unethical to Publish and Share. Psychological Science, 31(1), 75–87. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619887896
Chen, Cathy Xi, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand. ‘What Makes News Sharable on Social Media?’ PsyArXiv, 9 July 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gzqcd.
An interesting directory of personal blogs on software and security.
While it aggregates from various sources and allows people to submit directly to it, it also calculates a quality score/metric by using a total number of Hacker News points earned by the raw URL
Apparently uses a query like: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=example.com to view all posts from HN.
MeidasTouch.com on Twitter: “Fox News has put in place a vaccine passport system for their employees. Pass it on. Https://t.co/SmhY62jhA7” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved August 2, 2021, from https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1417158581258899456
We’ve analyzed thousands of COVID-19 misinformation narratives. Here are six regional takeaways—Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (n.d.). Retrieved August 1, 2021, from https://thebulletin.org/2021/06/weve-analyzed-thousands-of-covid-19-misinformation-narratives-here-are-six-regional-takeaways/
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, June 4). RT @EricTopol: Coverage of this report @FT by @hannahkuchler https://t.co/hOE20nyUbC https://t.co/QsOzxHdVCl [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1400889235813507072
Facebook Sided With The Science Of The Coronavirus. What Will It Do About Vaccines And Climate Change? (n.d.). BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 11 February 2021, from https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/facebook-coronavirus-misinformation-takedowns
Covid-19 pandemic was not planned by Rockefeller Foundation. (16:48:50.595211+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-pandemic-was-not-planned-rockefeller-foundation/
Carl T. Bergstrom. (2021, April 27). 6. In the right column, we are given weighted averages. But these are nonsense as well, because the data are not collected in a way that allow for meaningful comparisons. Most critically, THESE ARE TOTAL DEATHS, NOT VACCINE ASSOCIATED DEATHS. [Tweet]. @CT_Bergstrom. https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1387153003824648196
“Analysis | Fox News’s Dismissive Vaccine Coverage Is Particularly Dangerous for Its Relatively Old Audience.” Washington Post. Accessed July 19, 2021. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/16/fox-newss-dismissive-vaccine-coverage-is-particularly-dangerous-its-relatively-old-audience/.
Blogging about your work hits both of those marks. It also means that you have to translate your work from academese to language that non-academics will understand (i.e. jargon) and also foreground the relevance of your work. You have to tell people why your work is important and what it adds to the world.
This is such an important point. Donald Trump did such an excellent job speaking at a level a lay person could understand when downplaying the seriousness of the Covid-19 virus thus undermining the scientific and medical community voices, that many Americans are refusing to vaccinate. This puts the world at risk for future variants that might be much worse than the ones we have now. More academics simplifying knowledge will help stem the tide of fake news, political propaganda and truly harmful misinformation.
Erlich, A., Garner, C., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2021). Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro-Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence from Ukraine [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4yrdj
Matthew Gertz on Twitter: “These are all from the last day. Https://t.co/psMkSZf7PF” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved July 9, 2021, from https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1413121265284562951
S4C has a news app. This looks intriguing.
Website makes false claims about vaccines and miscarriages—Full Fact. (n.d.). Retrieved June 30, 2021, from https://fullfact.org/online/Covid-vaccine-miscarriage-false/
Telegraph suggests 9% of England dies each year—Full Fact. (n.d.). Retrieved June 29, 2021, from https://fullfact.org/health/telegraph-suggests-9-england-dies-each-year/
Covering Coronavirus: Fighting the ‘Infodemic’—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved June 28, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Po9anfLrA
Covid-19 Conspiracies: How Can We Deal With Misinformation? (n.d.). Retrieved June 28, 2021, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/sunitasah/2021/01/07/covid-19-conspiracies-how-can-we-deal-with-misinformation/?sh=526aa35b2b3f
Lyons, Benjamin A., Jacob M. Montgomery, Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. ‘Overconfidence in News Judgments Is Associated with False News Susceptibility’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 23 (8 June 2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2019527118.
Jigsaw. (2021, March 17). Distraction Helps Misinformation Spread. Thinking About Accuracy Can Reduce it. Medium. https://medium.com/jigsaw/distraction-helps-misinformation-spread-thinking-about-accuracy-can-reduce-it-a4e5d8371a85
Seth Trueger on Twitter: “oh no not again https://t.co/hi9q3WTGIg” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved June 26, 2021, from https://twitter.com/MDaware/status/1398304298145091585
Fact Check-COVID-19 vaccines are not ‘cytotoxic’ | Reuters. (n.d.). Retrieved June 25, 2021, from https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-cytotoxic/fact-check-covid-19-vaccines-are-not-cytotoxic-idUSL2N2O01XP
Anti-vax doctor mocked for claiming that shots will ‘magnetize’ people. (n.d.). Global News. Retrieved 18 June 2021, from https://globalnews.ca/news/7934660/magnets-covid-vaccine-doctor-ohio/
Influencers say Russia-linked PR agency asked them to disparage Pfizer vaccine | Marketing & PR | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved June 12, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/25/influencers-say-russia-linked-pr-agency-asked-them-to-disparage-pfizer-vaccine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Tay, L. Q., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). A Comparison of Prebunking and Debunking Interventions for Implied versus Explicit Misinformation [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/48zqn
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has rejected doing with receiving the COVID-19 vaccine
Wadman, M. (2021). Antivaccine activists use a government database on side effects to scare the public. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj6981
Prof. Christina Pagel on Twitter: “SHORT THREAD: I was on Sky News earlier where I explained why I thought test 4 (new variant test) for the next stage of the roadmap had not been met, because of B.1.617.2 (the so called ‘Indian’ variant of concern). 1/5 https://t.co/0O3dL2saOR” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved May 17, 2021, from https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1392927819504701441
Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH. (2021, April 20). I was very pleased to see Levitt resign yesterday from the science advisory board of the anti-vaxx group PANDA. Previously Sikora had resigned. This press release mentions other resignations. Anyone know if the 3 GBD authors finally resigned? Here’s PANDA’s views on vaccines: Https://t.co/wVZX7XujZ3 [Tweet]. @GYamey. https://twitter.com/GYamey/status/1384476491317227525
Tucker Carlson May Be America’s Biggest Public-Health Problem. (n.d.). Retrieved May 13, 2021, from https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-may-be-americas-biggest-public-health-problem?ref=author
Nurit Nobel. (2021, April 19). Meanwhile, in Europe... 🦗 [Tweet]. @nuritnobel. https://twitter.com/nuritnobel/status/1384121792122425345
Garimella, K., Smith, T., Weiss, R., & West, R. (2021). Political Polarization in Online News Consumption. ArXiv:2104.06481 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06481
Ahmed, S. T. (2020). Managing News Overload (MNO): The COVID-19 Infodemic. Information, 11(8), 375. https://doi.org/10.3390/info11080375
Robert Saunders on Twitter. (2020). Twitter. Retrieved 1 March 2021, from https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1326802784168124416
Greene, C., & Murphy, G. (2020). Individual differences in susceptibility to false memories for COVID-19 fake news. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rvec8
Greene, C., & Murphy, G. (2020). Can fake news really change behaviour? Evidence from a study of COVID-19 misinformation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qfnm3
Kim, E., Shepherd, M. E., & Clinton, J. D. (2020). The effect of big-city news on rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(36), 22009–22014. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009384117
Strasser, M. A., Sumner, P. J., & Meyer, D. (2021). COVID-19 news distress in youth: A systematic review protocol. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nkxqr
Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA. (2021, April 14). With all due respect to @NateSilver538, he is not an expert on the psychology of vaccine confidence. He is a poll aggregator and political pundit. He is not an infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist, vaccinologist, virologist, immunologist, or behavioral scientist. Https://t.co/HBrI6zj9aa [Tweet]. @celinegounder. https://twitter.com/celinegounder/status/1382299663269761024
West, J. D., & Bergstrom, C. T. (2021). Misinformation in and about science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(15). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912444117
Covid: Red states vaccinating at lower rate than blue states—CNNPolitics. (n.d.). Retrieved April 12, 2021, from https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/10/politics/vaccinations-state-analysis/
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Adam Finn. ‘There Are Some News Outlets & Politicians Incorrectly Reporting and Criticising Respectively MHRA for Advising against Use of OxAZ in under 30s. Neither MHRA nor EMA Have Done This. JCVI Have Expressed a Preference for Alternative Vaccines for Healthy under 30s in the UK Context’. Tweet. @adamhfinn (blog), 8 April 2021. https://twitter.com/adamhfinn/status/1380031766703058944.
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Bioengineer.org reports on the low cost and eco friendly aspects of "electronic skin" in comparison to smart devices, making is an interesting possible alternative.
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SYFY Wire reports on the functionality and comfort of the "wearable skin". They state that smart watches are functionally nice, but it is not optimal to have such a large mass on your body. This device matches or exceeds the functionality of this device while also being many times smaller.
Read more at:
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/scientists-sticky-electronic-skin-for-wearable-devices
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Science Daily reports about the multi-functionality and comfortability of the device. They state that it could be more accurate and functional than smart watches, while also cutting back on the worlds electronic waste.
Read more at:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201110081604.htm
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Nanowerk News reports on the multifunctionality of the device, saying it would be able to be worn as a bracelet, ring, etc. They also make light of its ability to turn heat into electricity using thermoelectric generators, something that could revolutionize smart devices.
Read more at: https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news2/newsid=57267.php
"היו הרבה דברים שטעינו בהם, אך אחד הדברים הברורים הם ההליכה של מנסור עבאס עם נתניהו. הציבור שלנו רוצה אחדות ועבאס החליט לפלג את הרשימה המשותפת ולתת לנתניהו בדיוק את מה שרצה", אמר ח"כ אבו שחאדה.
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עד כה, לראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו יש 52 ממליצים - חברי הליכוד, הסיעות החרדיות ומפלגת "הציונות הדתית". ליו"ר יש עתיד לפיד יש בינתיים כ-30 ממליצים: יש עתיד, ישראל ביתנו ומרצ הכריזו רשמית כי יתמכו בו בבית הנשיא, ולפי ההערכה גם שבעת המנדטים של מפלגת העבודה יצטרפו לעמדה זו.
ממליצים לממשלה
Covid-19 vaccine wars: Developing the AstraZeneca vaccine was a triumph, but then things went wrong. (2021, March 26). The BMJ. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/26/vaccine-wars-developing-the-astrazeneca-vaccine-was-a-triumph-but-then-things-went-wrong/
Nick Barrowman. (2021, March 26). Throughout the pandemic, a widespread inability to reason counterfactually has been on display. For example, some people apparently think lockdowns don’t work. They seem unable to imagine the situation had there not been a lockdown. Lockdowns are costly, but they work! [Tweet]. @nbarrowman. https://twitter.com/nbarrowman/status/1375240312264740870
Rosen, M. L., Rodman, A. M., Kasparek, S. W., Mayes, M., Freeman, M. M., Lengua, L., … McLaughlin, K. A., PhD. (2021, March 26). Promoting youth mental health during COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study spanning pre- and post-pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n5h8t
Levy, N. L., & Ross, R. M. (2020). The cognitive science of fake news [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3nuzj
Carl Bergstrom: “People are using data to bullshit.” (2020, August 1). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/01/carl-bergstrom-people-are-using-data-to-bullshit
Carl T. Bergstrom on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved 19 February 2021, from https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1357799981977985025
Szumowska, E., Czarnek, G., Dragon, P., & Keersmaecker, J. D. (2021). Multitasking and correction of false information. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w5v4z
James Hamblin. (2021, March 17). Whenever you vaccinate millions and millions of people, some will inevitably die shortly after. Others will get blood clots. Others will crash cars, or fall down stairs. None of this is newsworthy until there’s reason to believe these things are connected. [Tweet]. @jameshamblin. https://twitter.com/jameshamblin/status/1371993047261667329
Reuters. ‘New Zealand to Resume Taking Refugees a Year after Covid Border Closure’. the Guardian, 5 February 2021. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/05/new-zealand-to-resume-taking-refugees-a-year-after-covid-border-closure.
Rees, April, and Catherine Thornton. ‘COVID-19 Vaccines Do Not Make Women Infertile’. The Conversation. Accessed 7 February 2021. http://theconversation.com/covid-19-vaccines-do-not-make-women-infertile-153550.
Krupenkin, Masha, Kai Zhu, Dylan Walker, and David M. Rothschild. ‘If a Tree Falls in the Forest: COVID-19, Media Choices, and Presidential Agenda Setting’. SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, 22 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3697069.
A Wall Street Journal experiment to see a liberal version and a conservative version of Facebook side by side.
Xabaar bi agsi na démb.
La nouvelle est arrivée hier.
xabaar (Arabic) v. -- report (a new one).
bi -- the.
agsi v. -- to arrive, to arise.
na -- as (?).
démb ji -- the past; yesterday 📆, long ago.

World Health Organization (WHO). (2020, November 23). Media briefing on #COVID19 with @DrTedros https://t.co/un2spGWT2a [Tweet]. @WHO. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1330905359175671808
Colin D’Mello CTVNews. (2020, November 25). BREAKING: CTVNews has learned McKinsey & Company was paid $1.6million to help create the COVID-19 command tables, and $3.2 million to help with the school re-opening strategy. Https://t.co/F3FQtG8ftW #onpoli [Tweet]. @ColinDMello. https://twitter.com/ColinDMello/status/1331625704501424129
Marc-André Argentino. (2020, November 7). If you are interested in QAnon, QAnonCasualties is a must subreddit to read regularly and to get to know what is happening in QWorld from those closest to QAnon adherents. Https://t.co/qj05EFOxa6 [Tweet]. @_MAArgentino. https://twitter.com/_MAArgentino/status/1325144053479075840
Channel 4 News. (2021, January 17). “It’s working in mainland China with 1.4 billion people. It doesn’t depend on being an island.” A pandemic adviser to the New Zealand government says achieving zero cases isn’t about the size of a country, but about “strong leadership”. Https://t.co/SSpc8DjZXi [Tweet]. @Channel4News. https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1350834342709358593
Onishi, N., Méheut, C., Francini, A., Victor, D., Minder, R., & Schuetze, C. F. (2020, December 1). France has kept schools open without driving up infections, and other news from around the world. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/world/france-has-kept-schools-open-without-driving-up-infections-and-other-news-from-around-the-world.html
ReconfigBehSci. (2020, December 5). RT @bhrenton: On average, one person in the U.S. died of Covid-19 every 43 seconds last week. On this morning’s @CNNnewsroom, @Christi_Paul… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1335906973750059009
Bellovary, Andrea, Nathaniel A. Young, and Amit Goldenberg. ‘Left- and Right-Leaning News Organizations’ Negative Tweets Are More Likely to Be Shared’. PsyArXiv, 24 February 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2er67.
u/hamilton_ian. (2021). The effect of the news. r/BehSciAsk. Reddit
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, January 15). RT @MaartenvSmeden: The infamous retracted Hydroxychloroquire Lancet article? Cited.... 883 TIMES https://t.co/Zinyel2d8i [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1351111003283578883
Fukuyama, Barak Richman and Francis. “How to Quiet the Megaphones of Facebook, Google and Twitter.” Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2021, sec. Life. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-quiet-the-megaphones-of-facebook-google-and-twitter-11613068856.
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Yahoo UK reports about the functionality of the self-healing wearable electronics, inquiring that the technology could possibly replace smart watches.
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Taylor, J. (2021, February 17). Treasurer says Facebook has ‘damaged its reputation’ with Australian news ban. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/18/facebook-to-restrict-australian-users-sharing-news-content
Longoni, C., Fradkin, A., Cian, L., & Pennycook, G. (2021, February 16). News from Artificial Intelligence is Believed Less. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wgy9e
Fake News and Conspiracy Theories. (2021, February 16). American Purpose. https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/fake-news-and-conspiracy-theories/
Brashier, N. M., Pennycook, G., Berinsky, A. J., & Rand, D. G. (2021). Timing matters when correcting fake news. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(5). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020043118
When your digital news feed doesn’t contain links, when it cannot be linked to, when it can’t be indexed, when you can’t copy a paragraph and paste it into another application: when this happens your news feed is not flawed or backwards looking or frustrating. It is broken.
If your news feed doesn't contain links, can't be linked to, indexed, or copied and pasted, it is broken.
How can this be tied into the five R's of Open Education Resources: Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix and/or Redistribute content (and perhaps my Revise/Request update ideas: https://boffosocko.com/2018/08/30/the-sixth-r-of-open-educational-resources-oer/)
Communicating statistics through the media in the time of COVID-19. (2021, February 3). Impact of Social Sciences. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2021/02/03/communicating-statistics-through-the-media-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
Pennycook, G., Binnendyk, J., Newton, C., & Rand, D. G. (2020, October 1). A practical guide to doing behavioural research on fake news and misinformation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/g69ha
チャットbotやレコメンデーション、質問への回答、検索、パーソナルアシスタント、顧客サポート自動化、コンテンツ生成など、人と機械、人と人の自然言語によるやりとりを含む幅広いシナリオを支えるためだ
NLPの処理はいろんな領域で運用できる:レコメンデーション、パーソナルアシスタント
それを実践しているのが、全国に200店舗以上の大型スーパーマーケット「TRIAL」を展開するトライアルホールディングスだ
TRIALはいつも先進技術に積極的に取り込んでいる
The purpose of news is to inform, educate, and give us understanding and knowledge of what is going on in the world. It helps us to keep up to date with issues so we are in the know and fully aware of events taking place.
Toff, B. J., Badrinathan, S., Mont’Alverne, C., Arguedas, A. R., Fletcher, R., & Nielsen, R. K. (2020). What we think we know and what we want to know: Perspectives on trust in news in a changing world. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. https://experts.umn.edu/en/publications/what-we-think-we-know-and-what-we-want-to-know-perspectives-on-tr
As vaccines start rolling out, here’s what our research says about communication and coronavirus. (n.d.). Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Retrieved 13 January 2021, from https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/vaccines-start-rolling-out-heres-what-our-research-says-about-communication-and
Zhang, S. (2020, May 24). We Don’t Even Have a COVID-19 Vaccine, and Yet the Conspiracies Are Here. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/covid-19-vaccine-skeptics-conspiracies/611998/
Should You Use Hemp Products? Several factors have boosted the popularity and acceptance of hemp products in different parts of the globe. It has even turned into a multibillion-dollar industry, but one interesting question remains on the lips of many: should you use hemp products?
Well, the answer to this question is yes. But there are a few instances in which using hemp products will not be advisable for you.
All these instances will be discussed in this article. A Major Variety To Choose From
Hemp seed products are numerous, and they include hemp oil, hemp fiber, hemp juice, hemp milk, hemp protein, and many others. Hemp seed oil is probably the most popular of them, so the focus will be on it as a representative example of the hemp products discussed here in this piece.
For each hemp product in use, there are various benefits and advantages for you as the user. A good example here is hemp seed oil, which is also known as hemp oil. It is derived from hemp seeds, and the oil itself is usually raw. It is transparent green oil known for its refreshing and nutty flavor.
Now, please note that it is not the same as cannabidiol oil (CBD), which is derived from the cannabis plant. Hemp oil is derived from the hemp seed and has no tetrahydrocannabinol, the main psychoactive component.
So, you will not be getting a high from hemp products. That's a common misconception which has now been cleared.
Benefits of Using Hemp Seed Oil
Some applications and benefits come with a hemp product like hemp seed oil. One of these is that it is used for the improvement of skin health. It has many nourishing properties for the skin, and this is because of the natural moisturizers and vitamins that it contains. Those who apply hemp oil for improving their skin quality can take it topically or decide to consume it.
Taking a hemp product like hemp oil works wonders on your skin. It is ideal for practically all skin types, and this is because it can do moisturizing your skin without blocking the skin pores. It can also assist in balancing out your oily skin, hydrating the skin while also regulating the production of oil from the skin.
When the skin is too dry, it can be stimulated to produce excess oil to compensate for the dryness, but this only ends up causing more acne. Hemp oil is good in this regard as it helps in the prevention of dry skin without causing any clogging of the pores. This decreases the acne that was caused by the additional oil in the first place.
When You Should Not Use Hemp Products
As hinted earlier, hemp products are generally good, and most people can use them without any problems, but there are some other instances where they are not advisable for you. Some people develop irritation when they apply hemp products topically. We recommend you first apply the hemp oil to a tiny patch of the skin and watch for any reaction. If the reaction is one that you cannot cope with, you cannot use hemp products.
Some people have also reported that oral consumption of a hemp product like the oil can cause negative effects like digestion problems. Now, it all depends on the quality of the product. If you are buying it from a genuine brand, then there are no side effects.
Hemp products can also interfere with blood thinners, so you should discuss them with your doctor before using them.
Concluding Thoughts
Hemp products are generally good and safe, and most people use them without any problems. However, there are few conditions where you should not use hemp products because of the reactions or how they interfere with certain medications like blood thinners.
If you have a severe skin condition, test the product on your skin before applying it generously. Read the reviews of the brand's products before purchasing them, and rule out any major skin condition.
Other than these exceptions, hemp benefits are apparent. Anyone with a medical condition should discuss it with the physician first before using hemp products.
Egypt’s public prosecution has officially closed its investigation into the murder of Giulio Regeni, rejecting Italian prosecutors’ findings that accused four Egyptian security officials of kidnapping and torturing the Italian doctoral student in 2016.
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Bor, A., Osmundsen, M., Rasmussen, S. H. R., Bechmann, A., & Petersen, M. (2020, September 24). "Fact-checking" videos reduce belief in but not the sharing of "fake news" on Twitter. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a7huq
Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. (2020). The Cognitive Science of Fake News. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ar96c
Politicians and the news media often expect looting and crime when disaster strikes, as they did when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005. But the reality on the ground has more to do with communal acts of generosity and kindness, she believes.
The media get many of these sorts of frequently happening broad stories wrong so often that "On the Media" has an entire series about them: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/projects/breaking-news-consumers-handbook
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What you sad little liar the op is.
and narratives in fiction, popular nonfiction, and marketing material. These texts shape the public’s knowledge about and potential engagement with transoce-anic networks.
on peut se demander si la littérature (+cinéma etc.) ne se dédouane pas de sa responsabilité vis-à-vis de ses effets sur l’imaginaire collectif – une question qui mérite assurément d’être réinvestie à l’ère des fake news – puisqu’elle façonne en partie la représentation que le public se fait sur un sujet.
on reprochera par exemple aux films historiques (mettant en scène un musicien dont les gestes ne correspondent pas à ce qui est joué, une athlète de haut niveau qui reproduit pauvrement la technique de course, un film d’époque avec des écriteaux dans une police de caractères inventée en 2000…) de véhiculer des absurdités collatérales à leur réalisation mal informée.
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Tufekci argued that, in the 21st century, a surfeit of information, rather than its absence, poses the biggest problem. “When I was growing up in Turkey, the way censorship occurred was there was one TV channel and they wouldn’t show you stuff. That was it,” she said. “Currently, in my conceptualization, the way censorship occurs is by information glut. It’s not that the relevant information isn’t out there. But it is buried in so much information of suspect credibility that it doesn’t mean anything.”
But on the Web, stories of all kinds can show up anywhere and information and news are all mixed together. Light features rotate through prominent spots on the "page" with the same weight as breaking news, sports coverage, and investigative pieces, even on mainstream news sites. Advertorial "features" and opinion pieces are not always clearly identified in digitalspaces.
This difference is one of the things I miss about reading a particular newspaper and experiencing the outlet's particular curation of their own stories.Perhaps I should spend more time looking at the "front page" of various news sites.
Some (36%) said they agreed that the threat of “‘fake news’ had made them distrust the credibility of any news.” Almost half (45%) lacked confidence with discerning “real news” from “fake news,” and only 14% said they were “very confident” that they could detect “fake news.”
These numbers are insane!
YouTube (54%), Instagram (51%) or Snapchat (55%)
I'm curious to know which sources in particular they're using on these platforms. Snapchat was growing news sources a year ago, but I've heard those sources are declining. What is the general quality of these sources?
For example, getting news from television can range from PBS News Hour and cable news networks (more traditional sources) to comedy shows like Stephen Colbert and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah which have some underlying news in the comedy, but are far from traditional sources.
People come to Google looking for information they can trust, and that information often comes from the reporting of journalists and news organizations around the world.
Heavy hit in light of the Facebook data scandal this week on top of accusations about fake news spreading.
The furore over Fake News is really about the seizures caused by overactivity in these synapses - confabulation and hallucination in the global brain of mutual media. With popularity always following a power law, runaway memetic outbreaks can become endemic, especially when the platform is doing what it can to accelerate them without any sense of their context or meaning.
One might think that Facebook could easily analyze the things within their network that are getting above average reach and filter out or tamp down the network effects of the most damaging things which in the long run I suspect are going to damage their network overall.
Chris Hayes, who anchors MSNBC’s 8 pm newscast and is among the most thoughtful, civic-minded journalists in the industry, referenced a Will Ferrell joke from Anchorman 2 on his podcast, saying, “What if instead of telling people the things they need to know, we tell them what they want to know?” That is, he says, “the creation story of cable news.”
appreciate your help
I think that a major part of improving the issue of abuse and providing consent is building in notifications so that website owners will at least be aware that their site is being marked up, highlighted, annotated, and commented on in other locations or by other platforms. Then the site owner at least has the knowledge of what's happening and can then be potentially provided with information and tools to allow/disallow such interactions, particularly if they can block individual bad actors, but still support positive additions, thought, and communication. Ideally this blocking wouldn't occur site wide, which many may be tempted to do now as a knee-jerk reaction to recent events, but would be fine grained enough to filter out the worst offenders.
Toward the end of notifications to site owners, it would be great if any annotating activity would trigger trackbacks, pingbacks, or the relatively newer and better webmention protocol of the WW3C out of the http://IndieWebCamp.com movement. Then site owners would at least have notifications about what is happening on their site that might otherwise be invisible to them.
Perhaps there's a way to further implement filters or tools (a la Akismet on platforms like WordPress) that allow site users to mark materials as spam, abusive, or other so that they are then potentially moved from "public" facing to "private" so that the original highlighter can still see their notes, but that the platform isn't allowing the person's own website to act as a platform to give reach to bad actors.
Further some site owners might appreciate graded filters (G, PG, PG-13, R, X) so that users or even parents can filter what they're willing to see. Consider also annotations on narrative forms that might be posted as spoilers--how can these be guarded against? (Possibly with CSS and a spoiler tag?) Options can be built into the platform itself as well as allowing server-side options for truly hard cases.
My coding skills are rustier than I wish they were, but I'm available to help/consult if needed.
I have added a script to my websites today that will block annotations
I’ve spent some time thinking about this type of blocking in the past and written about a potential solution. Kevin Marks had created a script to help prevent this type of abuse as well; his solution and some additional variants are freely available. — {cja}
Queen stresses need for trusted news sources during Covid crisis. (2020, October 4). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/05/queen-elizabeth-stresses-need-for-trusted-news-sources-during-covid-crisis
“every courageous and incisive measure to solve internal problems of our own society, to improve self-confidence, discipline, morale and community spirit of our own people, is a diplomatic victory over Moscow worth a thousand diplomatic notes and joint communiqués. If we cannot abandon fatalism and indifference in the face of deficiencies of our own society, Moscow will profit.”
Perhaps the best defense against active measures is a little bit of activism of our own
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Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 by friendly fire
Even though Fox News repeatedly repeated the Govt's claim that Tillman was killed fighting the Taliban.
In interviews with The Washington Post, the Army Ranger's mother and father said they believe the military and the government created a heroic tale about how their son died to foster a patriotic response across the country.
U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Matthew Beevers said Saturday that Tillman was killed Thursday night in a firefight at about 7 p.m. on a road near Sperah, about 25 miles southwest of a U.S. base at Khost.
After coming under fire, Tillman’s patrol got out of their vehicles and gave chase, moving toward the spot of the ambush. Beevers said the fighting was “sustained” and lasted 15-20 minutes. Pat Tillman turned down a $3.6 million contract in 2002 to join the Army in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Beevers said Tillman was killed by enemy fire, but he had no information about what type of weapons were involved in the assault, or whether he died instantly.
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Just as journalists should be able to write about anything they want, comedians should be able to do the same and tell jokes about anything they please
where's the line though? every output generates a feedback loop with the hivemind, turning into input to ourselves with our cracking, overwhelmed, filters
it's unrealistic to wish everyone to see jokes are jokes, to rely on journalists to generate unbiased facts, and politicians as self serving leeches, err that's my bias speaking
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IR-2020-107, May 28, 2020 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that later this summer taxpayers will for the first time be able to file their Form 1040-X, Amended U.S Individual Income Tax Return, electronically using available tax software products.
IRS announces Form 1040-X electronic filing options coming this summer; major milestone reached for electronic returns