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CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan describes how he and a colleague were able to discover, and then prove, that the largest Black Lives Matter Facebook page in 2018 was an Australia-based scam. O’Sullivan also provides insights into the value of good archive sites and domain registration tools in investigating suspicious social media pages, in conjunction with traditional reporting methods.
For this week’s Friday 5, where GIJN rounds up key reads from around the world, we found a ready-for-prime-time study on financial crimes in the US art market, how misinformation actors are weaponizing the Wayback Machine, and Google’s not-so-altruistic $1 billion for publishers.
This week’s Friday 5, where we round up our favorite reads from around the online world in English, includes a recent algorithm change on Facebook’s News Feed that will boost original news stories, lessons learned on an academic and investigative journalism collaboration, and European media’s race problem.
Искусный онлайн-сыщик описал доступные инструменты, синтаксические приемы и методы поиска, которые позволяют найти трудноуловимые материалы, изображения и посты в социальных сетях, связанные с пандемией COVID-19.
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مكّنت أدواتُ المصادرِ المفتوحة والمحتوى الذي ينشئه المستخدمون (UGC) وفلاتر البحث المتقدّمة الصحفيين من إنتاج قصص صحفيّة مهمّة عن وباء كوفيد-19 من بيوتهم أثناء فترة الحجر الصحي. قد يبدو العثور على المحتوى المفيد مهمّةً صعبة خاصةً وأنه هنالك 6000 تغريدة تُرسّل في كلّ ثانية، وأكثر من 500 ساعة من المحتوى تُرفَع على YouTube في الدقيقة.
This week’s Friday 5, where we round up our favorite reads from around the online world in English, includes Meduza’s report on Russian editor Roman Badanin’s Pulitzer-charged rant against The New York Times, ProPublica’s sober response to the “Plandemic” viral video, and Poynter’s point about an ethics policy that includes guidelines for pre-publication source review.
The pressing need for good reporting during the pandemic has encouraged several funders to offer grants to journalists. GIJN has rounded up opportunities for journalists and news organizations around the world in our new Resource Center guide, Media Funding on the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Traditionally, documentary films can be a hard sell and haven’t always enraptured audiences. However, these films are now rising to the top of the heap given the possibilities of reaching an ever growing audience in a new battleground — the streaming arena, with the likes of established giants Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and Apple.
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has given rise to questions about credibility of traditional media outlets, the role of the media in shaping public opinion, and a changing media landscape. Even the future existence of free media as it is known today is a cause of concern for many in the media community if Trump’s attacks against the press during his election campaign are taken into account. GFMD has complied a selection of articles encompassing these wide-ranging issues.
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from July 22 to 28 finds The New York Times analyzing the catalyst behind Hong Kong’s recent protests, National Geographic visualizing human migration in the past 50 years, Ellery Studio’s fun and informative renewable energy coloring book, and The Economist’s findings that Hillary Clinton could have won the 2016 US election if all Americans had turned up to vote.