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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Journalism agenda: Social Media giants react to fake news phenomena after the damage already done…
Following the release of new features to tackle abuse on its network yesterday, Twitter has begun suspending the accounts of users associated with the alt-right political movement, reports USA Today. That includes the one belonging to Richard Spencer, who heads up the National Policy Institute (NPI) think tank. The organization concerns itself with the identity of “people of European descent in the United States, and around the world,” and publishes related writings on its sister site, Radix Journal. Accounts for both bodies have also been suspended, along with those of well-know alt-righters Paul Town, Pax Dickinson, Ricky Vaughn and John…
Because Trump wasn’t spending as much on TV ads, it seemed like his team wasn’t investing in changing minds. But they were: they were just doing it online
Following the conclusion of the US presidential elections which saw Donald Trump emerge victorious, there’s been a lot of talk about how social networks and fake news contributed to the outcome.
Rattled by criticism, the social network has taken a positive step—but misinformation can continue to spread.
In the wake of the Trump election — a triumph of fake news — both Google and Facebook have announced that they will take countermeasures to exclude “fake news” from their services, downranking them in the case of Facebook and cutting them off from ad payments in Google’s case.
As the media autopsies the various forces at play in last week’s election results, online social platforms — particularly Facebook — are coming under increased scrutiny for their role in spreading blatantly false news stories.
Can the presidential election result be blamed on failed algorithms? Facebook had taken the brunt of that claim in the days of shock following Donald Trump’s election. Then, on Monday, Google stumbled into the fray, and by the end of the day, it’s own mini-outrage produced a significant change in how Google does business.
As election results came in last Tuesday night, ProPublica started seeing a big increase in donations. In the first days after Donald Trump was elected, ProPublica’s donations were “running at about 10 times the rate that we’re used to,” said president Richard Tofel.
Sponsored: News publishers feared Facebook’s News Feed algorithm changes could lessen engagement, but engagement levels went up
There’s nothing like being authentic about fakery.
That’s what Melissa Zimdars has figured out in the past 24 hours, as her earnest attempt to separate fake news from the real stuff has gone viral.
Spurred in part by the phony 70News.com site, which itself spurred an overnight change in how Google and Facebook are doing business, Zimdars, an assistant professor of communication and media at Massachusetts’ Merrimack College, published her own tally of questionable news sites. Her list of about 130 problematic “news” sites includes those she considers to be “false, misleading, clickbait-y, and satirical ‘news’ sources.”
I spent yesterday in Bogota, Colombia, as the invited guest of the Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar, offering a speech on the future of civics and the future of journalism. It’s a wonderful event – roughly 1100 people came to celebrate Colombia’s equivalent of the Pulitzer prize. I had a great time meeting the amazing Colombian journalists who served as the jury for the award as well as the team behind the event.
The modern newsroom is facing growing challenges for how to cover conflicts around the world.
The bot also helped AJ+ distribute its videos in a new way, allowing people to search for specific topics
Journalism and environmental defense: two hazardous activities in Latin America
“Until comprehensive measures are taken to sever the ties between crime and State structures, certain groups will remain vulnerable and the violence directed at them will persist.” Interview. Español
An environmental activist holds a poster that reads in Spanish “No to deforestation” to protest an open-pit gold mining project in Costa Rica. AP Photo/Kent Gilbert. All rights reserved.
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Not only the Gülen case, Turkey is also interested in Zarrab case, demanding his release…
A top Turkish government official recently met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch and told her the prosecution of Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab was “based on no evidence,” according to a court filing unsealed on Nov. 15.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has once again slammed foreign media outlets over what he described as “unprincipled behavior,” in a speech delivered at the opening of TRT World, a new Turkish state-run TV channel broadcasting in English.
The European Commission accuses Turkey of backsliding on rights, prompting an angry reaction.
Mavi Boncuk |
COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT
Turkey 2016 Report Accompanying the document Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions 2016 Communication on EU Enlargement Policy
The Association of European Journalists (AEJ) has called on the European institutions to exert more pressure on Turkey, in face of further restrictions on freedom of expression and the press. EurActiv Germany reports.
The 2016 Turkey Report has stated that there are backslidings in freedom of speech, judicial independence and practice of democracy.
As to EU 2016 Turkey Progress Report, the Minister of EU Çelik has said “We don’t accept the expression that disproportionate force has been used in fight against PKK terror organization. This expression is a certificate of disgrace for EU institutions”.
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass did not have much to say yesterday when he met a group of journalists and academics to discuss the presidential election results, which ended in favor of Republican candidate Donald Trump
Ankara reacted angrily on Nov. 9 to a harsh progress report by the European Commission on Turkey, with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urging the European Union to make up its mind on Turkey’s accession bid immediately
AMBERİN ZAMAN @amberinzaman As across much of the globe Donald Trump’s stunning victory is eliciting mixed responses in Turkey. Pro-government commentators believe Trump will be better for Turkish US relations. They argue he will be less concerned about what the government’s critics view as the unraveling of Turkey’s fragile democracy. Many see parallels between Trump’s […]
The EU has said that Turkey has rolled back the independence of the judiciary, freedom of expression and other fundamental democratic standards, making its EU membership prospects ever more distant
Can Dündar, the former editor-in-chief of daily Cumhuriyet, was awarded honorary citizenship of Paris on Nov. 8. Dündar, who fled to Germany as an appeal against his conviction for revealing state charges is pending, was awarded the honor at City Hall for “distinguished services” by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker delivered a personal warning to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Nov. 8 saying that he would be held responsible if Ankara fails to meet EU criteria for granting Turks visa-free travel
It was an election where the American voters did not choose who they wanted more as president, but who they disliked less
The United States should not provide a safe haven for the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who the Turkish government accuses of orchestrating the failed July 15 coup attempt, a top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump has said
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November 08, 2016, 05:46 pm
Our ally Turkey is in crisis and needs our support
By Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn (R), contributor SOURCE
Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn (ret.) is the former director of Defense Intelligence Agency and the author of New York Times Bestseller “The Field of Fight.”
U.S. Vice President-elect Mike Pence told daily Hürriyet on Nov. 9 that Washington’s new administration wanted to improve relations with Turkey and bring them back to their previous level
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Eurosphere agenda: “EU agrees to boost defence and security…”Downing Street dismisses Brexit ‘divisions’ memo…
The EU is to boost its defence role, but a senior official says the bloc does not intend to compete with Nato.
Downing Street “wholeheartedly” rejects a leaked memo describing cabinet “divisions” over Brexit.
In Bulgaria the Socialist candidate Rumen Radev has won the first round of the presidential election, securing 25 percent of the vote. Tsetska Tsacheva, the candidate of ruling party Gerb lagged behind with roughly 22 percent. Prime Minister Boyko Borisov had said prior to the vote that he and his cabinet would resign if the opposition candidate won, but he has now announced that he will wait for the result of the runoff vote. The press comments on Borisov’s back-pedalling.
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Monday, November 16, 2015
Literati roundup: “Michel Foucault as an activist intellectual…”Foucault and the ‘current’ refugee crisis…
Foucault’s 1982 – 3 lectures presented his thoughts on the subject of parrhesia, or the truth-telling subject. He found himself confronting governments through speech acts in ways that we have yet to understand.
Foucault portrait. Flickr/Thierry Ehrmann. Some rights reserved.Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was one of the most influential intellectuals of our era. His work on sites of power-knowledge such as asylums, schools, hospitals, prisons, and factories continue to resonate and inspire empirical-political work in sociology, politics, geography, anthropology, as well as gender studies, international studies, urban studies, citizenship studies, postcolonial studies, and, cultural studies.
The specter of Foucault has much to teach us – if we are able to listen.
Syrian refugees arrive on Lesbos. Demotix/Björn Kietzmann. All rights reserved.Over thirty years ago Michel Foucault spoke to the refugee crisis of his day. Today another refugee crisis, the largest since WWII, is spilling out from Syria and North Africa. And tomorrow, Foucault anticipated, there will be yet another current crisis.
This is (along with Islamism and neoliberalism) one of a certain number of global issues on which Foucault can be credited with having shown a degree of prescience; and the future he foresees is sombre.
Vietnamese boat people in 1982. Some rights reserved.
This is an interview with Michel Foucault conducted by H.Uno, translated by R Nakamura for Shûkan posuto and published in August, 1979. In October, this timely if not prophetic text was translated from the French for openDemocracy by Colin Gordon.
Original title: “Nanmin mondai ha 21 seku minzoku daiidô no zenchô da”. Interview with H Uno; translated by R Nakamura, Shûkan posuto, 17 August 1979, pp. 34-35.
Dits et écrits III 798 (271) pp 798-800, translated by Ryóji Nakamura. Translated from the French by Colin Gordon, 2015.
A panel of academic booksellers, librarians, and publishers asked the public to vote on which academic book from a list of 20 is “the most influential.” Charles Darwin’s “On The Origin of Species” (1859) dominated with 26% of the vote, beating out the likes of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eight-Four,” Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations,” and Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” The top five also included “The Communist Manifesto,” “The Complete Works of Shakespeare,” Plato’s “The Republic,” and Immanuel Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason.”
Charles Darwin’s ‘Origin’ voted most influential bookVoters had a choice of 20 academic books that changed the worldA panel of experts selected the top 20 books from 200 titles submitted by publishers from the United KingdomNo. 2 is “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Darwin’s book, which founded evolutionary biology when it was published in 1859, was the undisputed winner with a quarter of the votes submitted by the public.
One Flew Over the Cuckooo’s Nest by Ken Kesey took place in Salem, Oregon. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was based in Chicago. The Shining by Stephen King took place in Estes, Colorado. These novels, and 39 others, are on this Great American Novel Map ($30) published by Hog Island Press.
Orhan Pamuk at the time of his 2005 trial for insulting ‘Turkishness’. Picture AFP Source: AP
When Orhan Pamuk answered the phone in 2006 and learned he had won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the novelist made a silent promise to himself:
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