It’s a critique that PolitiFact has long been accustomed to hearing. “PolitiFact is engaging in a great deal of selection bias,” The Weekly Standard wrote in 2011. “'Fact Checkers' Overwhelmingly Target Right-Wing Pols and Pundits” reads an April 2017 headline from NewsBusters, a site whose …
Facebook thinks it has the answer for waning user engagement—better livestreams.The company has a seen a drop in users in the U.S., pointing to an overall trend of decreased web traffic and a loss of consumer trust. However, the company is still pushing its live …
BBC sound man holds the mike to record a former extremist talking to demonstrators who were protesting the Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington, DC. Photo: Nina Berman.A media riddle: if white nationalists hold a rally in Washington and no one shows up, is …
Want to connect with young people? Traditional means of personalizing ads to appeal to Gen Z and millennials are stale, according to new research from video platform VidMob. VidMob surveyed 1,000 16- to 24-year-olds (Gen Z) and 1,000 25- to 34-year-olds (millennials) about a number …
| 8 hours ago Over the past few years, we’ve seen Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple doubling down on machine learning and automation. With both maturing quickly and more platforms following suit, we’re beginning to experience firsthand just how much …
Nick Millington had just started to feel like a successful software engineer. It was early 2003, and at age 26 he already had a fruitful career at Microsoft. He feared his one-bedroom apartment in Redmond, Washington—filled with a mishmash of bargain-bin furniture and DIY …
Facebook’s popularity is waning—at least in the United States. The company has dropped from an average of 8.5 billion hits per month to about 4.7 billion. This drop in views could be part of Facebook’s struggles to keep user trust in the wake of data misuse …
Despite the president’s regular protests to the contrary, The New York Times is not “failing.” The Times announced Wednesday that it added 109,000 new digital-only subscriptions in the latest quarter, contributing to a rise in revenue from subscribers that more than offset declines in advertising. …
| 7 hours ago Consumers scroll through hundreds of feet of content per day in their social news feeds, not to mention the amount of content they take in from television, display media across the internet, email, out of home advertising and so on. When it …
New poll: 43 percent of Republicans want to give Trump power to shut down media It's not just Republicans. The latest Ipsos poll, while showing a plurality of Republicans approving presidential power to shut down certain news outlets "engaged in bad behavior," finds support among swaths of Democrats …
The original version of this story has been updated with a correction. Wildfires have consumed close to 100,000 acres in northern California’s Mendocino County this week. About 15,000 of the 87,000 residents there have been evacuated from their homes. Public emergencies like this are a stress test …
Ask any fact-checker and they’ll tell you: Finding the truth is hard. It’s time-consuming, money is tight and the potential blowback can be severe. And with hundreds of digital tools and how-tos out there, it can be difficult to figure out which ones are actually helpful. So …
