The battle to end fake news: A qualitative content analysis of Facebook announcements on how it combats disinformation

The recent spread of online disinformation has been profound and has played a central role in the growth of populist sentiments around the world. Facilitating its progression has been politically and economically motivated culprits who have ostensibly taken advantage of the digital freedoms available to them. At the heart of these freedoms lie social media organisations that only a few years earlier techno-optimists were identifying as catalysts of an enhanced digital democracy. In order to curtail the erosion of information, policy reform will no doubt be essential. The UK's Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Disinformation and ‘fake news’ Report and Cairncross Review, and the European Commission's Report on Disinformation are three recent examples seeking to investigate how precisely such reform policy might be implemented. Just as important is how social media organisations take on more responsibility and apply self-regulating mechanisms that stifle disinformation across their platforms (something the aforementioned reports identify). Doing so will go a long way in restoring legitimacy in these significant institutions. Facebook (which includes Instagram and Whatsapp), is the largest social media organisation in the world and must primarily bear the burden of this responsibility. The purpose of this article is to offer a descriptive account of Facebook's public announcements regarding how it tackles disinformation and fake news. Based on a qualitative content analysis covering the period November 16th 2016–March 4th 2019, this article will set out some groundwork on how to hold social media platforms more accountable for how they handle disinformation

Helen Williams Coxon family papers

The collection consists of the papers of Helen Williams Coxon. Materials date from 1765, bulk 1921-1989, and include correspondence, clippings, printed material, photographs and writings pertaining to Coxon\u27s involvement with the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Colonists; her service with Georgia\u27s Pardons and Paroles Board, the Georgia House of Representatives, and the Georgia Senate; and as editor and publisher of the Ludowici News (Ludowici, Long County, Georgia). Eighteenth and nineteenth-century materials included in the collection were collected by Coxon and pertain to family history. Find this collection in the University Libraries\u27 catalog.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/finding-aids/1015/thumbnail.jp

Three Limitations of Algorithmic Reason: Steering the Human Mind in the Twenty First Century

Artificial Intelligence has pervaded contemporary societies in almost every way as an externalized, fragmented, and optimized form of rationality. I call this externalized mode of thought “algorithmic rationality” and to the ideology favoring it, “algorithmic reason”. Although algorithmic reason original goal was to facilitate the arising of a highly participative and global Culture, fitting all citizens in a dynamic democratic society, History has it that AI technology would be ceased by consumer logic and computational propaganda. I discuss the economical, epistemological, and political implementation of algorithmic reason, introducing three cases. I argue that such implementation comprises a cybernetic loop, involving a centralized AI and its instrumentalized users. Commenting upon the ubiquity of such loop, I introduce three limitations of algorithmic reason. The first two are of a computational nature. The third owes its presence to a cybernetic loop, producing a steering effect on the human mind and promoting a cultural flattening effect. This, I conclude, may result in the impoverish of creativity, critical thought, and intellectual curiosity.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

World Press Trends Outlook 2021-2022

This edition of WAN-IFRA’s annual flagship research and report reveals an industry challenged but optimistic about its business. It examines the results of publishers’ business in 2021, their forecasts for 2022 and beyond, and the trends and issues shaping the industry. Our research shows news publishers feel confident about tackling the ongoing coronavirus crisis, and that some of their early pandemic-era pivots are beginning to pay dividends. However, publishers still need to navigate considerable transformation and turmoil, even if there are signs of a resurgence in global advertising markets and a maturing of many reader revenue strategies. The invasion of Ukraine has further undermined companies’ plans, as how that conflict will unfold can have long-lasting effects on industries across the board, in addition to the humanitarian crisis it is causing. As in the previous years, the World Press Trends Outlook analysis is based on an online survey distributed to industry leaders. 162 news executives from 58 countries took part in the survey in Fall 2021 – a big thank you to them for sharing their insights, results and strategies. In addition, WAN-IFRA works with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and ZenithOptimedia for key performance indicators (revenue, circulation and ad spend). For additional audience insights, we work with analytics specialist Chartbeat.World Press Trends is supported by Protecmedia, the content management provider

Information Outlook, March 2000

Volume 4, Issue 3https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_io_2000/1002/thumbnail.jp

Gettysburg: Our College\u27s Magazine Fall 2018

We Are The Champions Brooke Holechek \u2719 Back to Back Champions Table of Contents From the President Janet Morgan Riggs \u2777 History That\u27s Digital Kasey Varner \u2714 Worldwide Connections (Allison Dauner Zoller ’01) Three Join the Board of Trustees Prof Notes: Charles (Buz) Myers JR. P\u2709 (Professor Charles (Buz) Myers) Sunderman Prof. Bill O\u27Hara Pioneers Video Game Music Course Jordan Marks \u2718 Snapshots What Makes a Great Joke? Professor Steve Gimbel The 411 (Sherrin Hilburt Baky-Nessler \u2765, P\u2701) Conversations Big Picture: Special Commencement Miranda Harple Battlefield as Teacher Katelyn Silva Discovering Her Resilience: Rhiannon Winner \u2719 Jeffrey Lauck \u2718 Geologist Bob Gastaldo \u2772 Investigates: Will We Cause Our Own Mass Extinction Lucas Joel What Students Do (Christina Noto ’19) Work Makes a Difference What Makes Gettysburg Great (Prof. Todd W. Neller) Save the Dates News of Note Class Notes Class of 1968 50th Reunion In Memory Parting Shot: 2018 Special Commencement Ceremony Remarks to Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse (Sharon Stephenson) The 1832 Society: The Impact of Legacyhttps://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gburgmag/1014/thumbnail.jp

Columbia College Chicago

Alumni newsletter from Winter 1991 entitled Columbia College Chicago. This issue is 6 pages and features 10 images. The issue is listed as Volume 1, No. 2.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/alumnae_news/1039/thumbnail.jp

re: Columbia

Alumni newsletter from Spring 1996 entitled re: Columbia. This issue is 6 pages and features 19 images. The issue is listed as No. 15.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/alumnae_news/1051/thumbnail.jp