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How Putin keeps the internet under state control (Wired)

Russia’s next fake news campaign could devastate the economy (Wired)

Post-Snowden Internet Policy

See Media and Communication (open access journal, all articles are freely accessible).

The first two rounds of Google’s DNI

Here are the results of the first two rounds of Google’s European Digital News Innovation Fund (NiemanLab)

Google is funding a new software project that will automate writing local news (Journalists, beware! - recode)

Facebook and Twitter are being used to manipulate public opinion

Computational Propaganda Worldwide: Executive Summary (Samuel C. Woolley and Philip N. Howard, University of Oxford)

How to verify social media information

Crises, Rumours and Reposts: Journalists’ Social Media Content Gathering and Verification Practices in Breaking News Situations (Media and Communication)

Mestrado FCSH/NOVA: Novos Media e Práticas Web

Inscrições abertas até 16 de Junho. Mais info: aqui.
Novo seminário em parceria com o CITI: Atelier de design e produção de conteúdos para a web.

Controlling AI Will Be Impossible

Human-Level AI Is Right Around the Corner—or Hundreds of Years Away (Spectrum)

If humans are no longer the smartest creatures on the planet, we can reimagine our lives (Guardian)

Scientists Say Controlling A.I. Will Be Impossible for 3 Reasons (Inverse)

News Coverage of Donald Trump’s First 100 Days

Trump’s coverage during his first 100 days set a new standard for negativity. Of news reports with a clear tone, negative reports outpaced positive ones by 80 percent to 20 percent (Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media).

Fake Videos

Artificial Intelligence can now use a person's image and audio to create fake videos (FirstPost)

Americans don't fact-check the information they read

9 out of 10 Americans don't fact-check information they read on social media (ZDNet)

Critical Literacy in the Age of Clickbait (ASCD)

IA & Economía

La inteligencia artificial obliga a redefinir la economía (El País)

Facebook: how to spot “false news”

Facebook publishes fake news ads in UK papers (BBC)

Facebook deletes thousands of UK accounts in crackdown on fake news (Telegraph)

What causes fake news, and what are its solutions?

What causes fake news, and what are its solutions? Journalists from NPR, CNN and the founder of PolitiFact weigh in (Poynter).

Fake News & Algoritmos [FCSH/NOVA]

Notícias Falsas (​Fake-news​) e algoritmos: responsabilidade editorial e liberdade de expressão no mundo on-line: 24 de Maio, Auditório 1 da FCSH/NOVA. Ver Programa

Facebook vs Fakebook

Facebook Admits It’s Being Used by Political Actors to Manipulate Opinion (Fortune).

Facebook report admits foreign governments are influencing discourse. They're using fake accounts to manipulate public opinion on the network (Engadget).

A new database of fake news sites

A new database of fake news sites details how much fakery has spread from Trump v. Clinton to local news (Nieman Lab)

The Guardian pulls out of Facebook’s Instant Articles

The Guardian pulls out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News (Digiday)

Voters didn’t get the information they needed during the U.S. election

Unless The Government Acts Soon, Fake News Will Produce Deep Information Inequality (HP, Philip N. Howard)

A Field Guide to Fake News

What does fake news tell us about life in the digital age? Not what you might expect (NiemanLab)

Fake News and the Digital Duopoly

Google and Facebook have created a dysfunctional and socially destructive information ecosystem. Fake news, piracy and digital duopoly of Google and Facebook (WSJ)

The information war

Kate Starbird: The information war is real, and we’re losing it (Seattle Times)

Goodbye internet privacy

Goodbye internet privacy, we hardly knew you (Mashable)

Congress just killed your right to online privacy (Next Web)

Senate votes to let ISPs sell your Web browsing history to advertisers (ArsTechnica)

Congress Is About To Give Away Your Online Privacy (Wired)

The tribalization of information

Donald Trump and the rise of tribal epistemology (David Roberts, Vox)