Researchers at New York University’s (NYU) Ad Observatory project have accused Facebook of trying to silence independent research after the social media giant disabled the…
Misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines are not being fact-checked on Facebook, a new study finds. Further analysis highlights inconsistencies in the application of Facebook’s policies.…
A new report by the Oxford Reuters Institute investigates how legacy news organisations across six European countries use social media for news distribution. The report is co-authored…
In response to criticism about “fake news”, Facebook now applies “Disputed by 3rd Party Fact-Checkers” tags to stories evaluated by impartial organisations. Facebook has also…
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has launched a new project to re-decentralize the web. With a handful of companies currently dominating the Web…
Roy Greenslade, Guardian Media columnist and CUL Professor of Journalism, spoke at the launch of the 2015 Annual Report of The Press Council and the Office of…
Emily Bell in Columbia Journalism Review argues that two of the most significant developments in journalism are that (1) news publishers have lost control over distribution…
Allie VanNest at Media Shift questions whether Facebook’s referral traffic is as valuable as publishers assume. She writes “social referrals led to the fewest seconds of…
Google’s Accelerate Mobile Pages (AMP) will speed up the web and marks a fundamental shift in the way online content is created. It also raises broader questions…
Journalism is at a cross roads, under pressure from social media, experiencing financial woes and facing high levels of scepticism from publics. It is tempting…