Search Audio Activism Metadata about *Media* Activism Menu About Search Search for: Close search Close Menu About Categories Education Video Danah Boyd's look at Media Literacy Post author By Brian R. Post date January 29, 2020 I’m still watching this whole video but… I’ve already seen some powerful observations. Extremely relevant to the current media making landscape and the State of the Internet. She’s eloquently expresses some of the concerns I have that motivated me to relaunch AA. TL;DR – Part 1. Medi
media literacy Categories Activism Lies spread faster than the truth Post author By Brian R. Post date January 28, 2020 From the scientific paper The spread of true and false news online published in Science in 2018:
We investigated the differential diffusion of all of the verified true and false news stories distributed on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. The data comprise ~126,000 stories tweeted by ~3 million people more than 4.5 million times. We classified news as true or false using information from six independent fact-checking organizations that exhibited 95 to 98% agreement on the classifications. Falsehood diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of informatio