US 2020: another Facebook disinformation election

Facebook’s measures have largely failed to reduce the spread of viral disinformation on the platform (AVAAZ)

It is still incredibly easy to share (and see) known fake news about politics on Facebook (NiemanLab)

“The Facebook environment…muddies the waters between fact and fiction” (NiemanLab)

Facebook Isn’t Just Allowing Lies, It’s Prioritizing Them

The more outrageous the lie, the better it is for Facebook’s bottom line (Ellen P. Goodman and Karen Kornbluh, LA Times)

Facebook Isn’t Just Allowing Lies, It’s Prioritizing Them (Tim Wu, NYT)

Hillary Clinton: Zuckerberg should pay price for damage to democracy (The Guardian)

The Guardian view on political advertising: time to regulate it, Mr Zuckerberg (Editorial, The Guardian)

Don’t abolish political ads on social media. Stop microtargeting (Ellen L. Weintraub, WP)

Elizabeth Warren’s New Facebook Ad Brutally Owns Mark Zuckerberg (Rolling Stone)

The UK’s election will put Facebook’s political ad policies to the test (MIT TR)

Mark Zuckerberg has defended Facebook’s decision to let politicians lie in ads (MIT TR)

Russia's Great Firewall

Russia Is About to Disconnect From the Internet: What That Means (Adam Smith, PCMag)

None seem to have learned the lesson of Facebook risks

Newsonomics: Will Facebook’s new news tab be a milestone or millstone? (Ken Doctor, NiemanLab)

Why publishers shouldn’t trust Facebook News (Josh Constine, TechCrunch)

Facebook launches its “test” News tab in the U.S., but you may not see it yet (Laura Hazard Owen, NiemanLab)

Save Journalism Project co-founder: Mark Zuckerberg embodies the 'antithesis of free expression' (CNN)

Media amnesia and the Facebook News Tab (Emily Bell, CJR)

Ignore Zuckerberg’s self-serving rubbish. Facebook must be regulated (Simon Jenkins, The Guardian)

Live talking about journalism and the launch of Facebook News with Robert Thomson, Chief Executive of News Corp.

Google (Big) Brother

Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite (Martin Shelton, Freedom of the Press)

Un exempleado de Google advierte de que la compañía puede acceder todos los documentos en su nube (El País)

In a corner of Brazil...

In a corner of Brazil, local reporters are switching to government jobs and the state is achieving “media capture” (NiemanLab)

FCC repealed net neutrality

Will net neutrality enter the 2020 debate after court ruling? (Andrew Wyrich, DailyDot)

Rise of the machines

La revolución tecnológica necesita ética o nos esclavizará (El País)

Da invisibilidade de Salazar à presencialidade de Caetano. Sobre os media, a televisão e a ditadura em Portugal

2. Cádima, F. R. (2019). Da invisibilidade de Salazar à presencialidade de Caetano. Sobre os media, a televisão e a ditadura em Portugal. Media & Jornalismo, v. 19 n. 35, pp. 197-209. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336826181_Da_invisibilidade_de_Salazar_a_presencialidade_de_Caetano_Sobre_os_media_a_televisao_e_a_ditadura_em_Portugal

Real news about fake news

The number of countries with political disinformation campaigns more than doubled to 70 in the last two years (NiemanLab)

Why communities must fight for local journalism

Final editions: why no local news is bad news (The Guardian)

Human Capital in the Digital Environment

Human Capital in the Digital Environment 2019 Report: In the absence of a formal education system that is not keeping pace with the increasingly digitised world, the digital talent shortage is becoming increasingly acute, driving the skill gap ever wider.

Could language be the key to detecting fake news?

Purveyors of disinformation can be caught out by the particular words they use, according to new research (David Shariatmadari, The Guardian)

Digital Media_References

Cádima, F. R. (Suggested texts):

--Media, diversity and globalisation in the digital age. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320992499_Media_diversity_and_globalisation_in_the_digital_age

--El control de Internet y de las “voces liberadas” en la emergencia del paradigma digital
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289573226_El_control_de_Internet_y_de_las_voces_liberadas_en_la_emergencia_del_paradigma_digital

--Journalism at the crossroads of the algorithmic turn. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325219719_Journalism_at_the_crossroads_of_the_algorithmic_turn

-- A Rede na Estratégia da Aranha: “Pós-verdade”, Política e Regressão. Observatorio (OBS*) Special Issue: As Formas Contemporâneas dos Conflitos e das Apostas Digitais. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328602612_A_Rede_na_Estrategia_da_Aranha_Pos-verdade_Politica_e_Regressao

-- Uma análise do website da RTP e os ‘novos serviços audiovisuais’ da televisão pública”. In Cádima, F. R. (Org.). Diversidade e Pluralismo nos Média. Lisboa: ICNOVA, pp. 93-108.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332876136_UMA_ANALISE_DO_WEBSITE_DA_RTP_E_OS_NOVOS_SERVICOS_AUDIOVISUAIS_DA_TELEVISAO_PUBLICA

-- Revisão do problema da Legitimação do PSM no contexto digital”. In Cádima, F. R. (Org.). Diversidade e Pluralismo nos Média. Lisboa: ICNOVA, pp. 129-140.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332875907_REVISAO_DO_PROBLEMA_DA_LEGITIMACAO_DO_PSM_NO_CONTEXTO_DIGITAL

--Novos usos e desafios para os videojogos: streaming, questões de género e assédio online.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321138682_New_uses_and_challenges_for_video_games_streaming_gender_issues_and_online_harassment

-- O (des)controlo da Internet: para uma história da Darknet
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313427759_O_descontrolo_da_Internet_para_uma_historia_da_Darknet

--O (des)controlo da Internet: bad bots, astroturfing e flogging
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312220616_O_descontrolo_da_Internet_bad_bots_astroturfing_e_flogging

--Media, Cidadania, Big Data
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291338212_Media_Cidadania_Big_Data

--Sobre a Era Digital: do analógico ao “algorithmic turn
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276794926_Sobre_a_Era_Digital_do_analogico_ao_algorithmic_turn

--Novas convergências digitais: media, humanidades e artes
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307776357_Novas_convergencias_digitais_midia_humanidades_e_artes

--A Google, o sistema de media e a agregação de informação
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277556663_A_Google_o_sistema_de_media_e_a_agregacao_de_informacao

--O Facebook, as redes sociais e o direito ao esquecimento
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277556597_O_Facebook_as_redes_sociais_e_o_direito_ao_esquecimento

--Política, Net e Cultura Participativa
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277711858_Politica_Net_e_Cultura_Participativa

Declaration of Digital Independence

Declaration of Digital Independence (by Larry Sanger). Social Media Strike!

New Facebook policies for upcoming elections around the world

Facebook: protecting the 2020 Census and upcoming Elections around the world. Facebook’s Civil Rights Audit – Progress Report

Second-generation fact-checking: working for system change

“First-generation fact-checking” is no longer good enough. Here’s what comes next (Laura Hazard Owen, NiemanLab)

@privacyproject

Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? (NYT)

The Privacy Project (NYT)

Bodies in Seats

At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives (Casey Newton, The Verge)

Internet Trends 2019

Everything happening on the internet in 2019 (Mary Meeker 2019 Internet Report):

In 2010, TV took up 43% of our media attention and an equal 43% of ad dollars.
In 2010, mobile took up 8% of our media attention and 0.5% of ad dollars.

In 2018, TV took up 34% of our attention and a still-equal 34% of ad dollars.
In 2018, mobile took up 33% of our attention and an equal 33% of ad dollars.

Facebook's Libra

Facebook Will be the Paypal of Crypto. Project Libra will launch soon and it will instantly change the intersection of chat and payments (Medium).

Onlyne anonymity is dead

Madhumita Murgia: How data brokers sell your identity (TED)

Facebook: o censor do arquivo

Os censores do Facebook em acção (J. Pacheco Pereira)