Are trained journalists or is Artificial Intelligence best at determining fake news? Essentially, the question comes down to reliance on people either way: those who program AI or journalists who write news to determine the fact. Adweek reports that a …
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Best Fake News Hounds, AI or Journalists?
November 20, 2018 – 11:47 am
Social Media & Internet Use Hit Plateau
October 29, 2018 – 10:33 am
It seems that since 2016 there has been little, to no growth, in Americans who use the Internet, smartphone devices and social media. For about 20 years the rate of adoption for these was extremely rapid. However, according to Pew …
Polling Lesson: “Defining the Universe”
October 22, 2018 – 9:26 am
For Monday morning we have a lesson on polling from Pew Research Center. This can be a little tough to understand before coffee, but this lesson is critically important to anyone trying to read a poll or survey result. …
Social Media Apps for Natural Disasters
September 17, 2018 – 11:34 am
Social media apps are changing the ways natural disaster help and information are accessed. This story by …
Facebook Users Fast Changing Relationship
September 5, 2018 – 10:07 am
Something is happening with Facebook users and their relationship to the social medium. Cambridge Analytica revelations about how data collected by Facebook was used has many Americans unsettled and changing the way they engage with Facebook. Today, in time for …
Has Social Media Growth Peaked?
August 9, 2018 – 10:22 am
Something interesting has been happening to social media companies such as Facebook, Snap and Twitter. (Facebook’s sister platform, Instagram, is growing dramatically, but it appears that might simply be social media use moving from an older platform to a younger …
Facebook Brings News Powerhouses Aboard
June 7, 2018 – 9:30 am
Facebook Pays for News Content
ABC, Anderson Cooper, Shepard Smith, Jorge Ramos and more: News powerhouses are coming aboard Facebook’s Watch, its section of proprietary video content. As TechCrunch points out, what’s especially notable is that the social media giant …
Amazon Fake Reviews Posted from Facebook
April 24, 2018 – 9:56 am
The Washington Post has an investigative article about merchants using Facebook to flood their products and services on Amazon with beneficial fake reviews in order to entice consumers to purchase them. The article is newsworthy in showing that Amazon is …
Are Tweets Human or Twitter Bots?
April 11, 2018 – 9:54 am
At the same time Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, is testifying before Congress about fake posts on his social network, Pew Research Center has come out with a study that shows how affected Twitter is by Twitter bots that are …
Tips to Determine Fake Reviews
March 25, 2018 – 9:36 pm
NBC Southern California recently did an expose of companies that write fake reviews. The station video has the expose, but in the accompanying article are four great tips to help determine if the reviews you are reading are fake. In …