Facebook / President Trump The 2016 presidential election coincided with substantial shifts in the ways that members of Congress communicated with their constituents online. A new Pew Research Center analysis examines congressional Facebook posts from Jan. 1, 2015, through Dec. 31,…
Problema / Fake News Este año, ciudadanos en cada rincón del mundo acudirán a las urnas para ejercer su voto, la máxima expresión de la democracia. Con más de 80 elecciones previstas para 2019, incluidas las megaelecciones de la India…
Órgãos Federais / Pedidos de Acesso à Informação Órgãos públicos federais já negaram 61.565 pedidos feitos por meio da Lei de Acesso à Informação, que completa sete anos em vigor hoje. O número representa 8,26% do total de 745.337 solicitações. Os…
Jornais / EUA A indústria de mídia jornalística está em disrupção há cerca de duas décadas nos Estados Unidos. Reportagem do diário The Wall Street Journal (acesso apenas para assinantes) traz as estatísticas mais recentes que indicam o fechamento de 1.800 jornais impressos…
Facebook / AI One of Facebook Inc.’s biggest issues in trying to stop the spread of fake news on its platform is being able to train its algorithms on good examples of truth and falsehoods. Fonte: Bloomberg Leia todo o texto Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/facebook-wants-ai-to-screen-content-but-fairness-issues-remain?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-media&utm_content=media&utm_source=twitter&fbclid=IwAR06-zL29URTSfPGBMV9ZUAIWrhjufS8OjmQd8lPyzECwVr0AIT6zDefxkk…
Metrics / Journalism FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, journalism metrics in general, and particularly reach metrics—like pageviews and unique users—have been the subject of profound suspicion within the news industry. In recent years, the negativity has intensified, even from…
Trust / Government In Beijing, being a cyclist is dangerous. Bikers often refuse to yield to one another, cutting people off at will – because they don’t trust others to give them their turn. Fonte: apolitical Leia todo o texto Link: https://apolitical.co/solution_article/trust-government-falling-can-stop/?fbclid=IwAR3LO_DiDnG3ZkG4zKteGuQixf8vljJMvZope6-E3a3QV7Y2j0AFKNcjdV8 Leia…
Big Tech / Iron Cage A decade ago, the residents of the English village of Broughton, in Buckinghamshire, formed a human chain to block an intruder. A car with a camera mounted on its roof was about to immortalize Broughton’s country…
Revolution / India “On or about December 1910, human character changed,” the English novelist Virginia Woolf once wrote. It’s no exaggeration to say that human character in India changed equally dramatically between 2014 and 2019 as the number of active…
Scientistis / statistical significance In many scientific disciplines, that’s the threshold beyond which study results can be declared “statistically significant,” which is often interpreted to mean that it’s unlikely the results were a fluke, a result of random chance. Fonte: Vox…
