fake news
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Read More: #24: the 1st Amendment includes the right to receive information“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said restricting access to social media would mean “being cut off from a very large part of the marketplace of ideas. And the First Amendment includes…
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Read More: #23: galvanize people at the crossroads of cinema and community“On April 4, 2017, almost 90 art house movie theaters across the country in 79 cities and in 34 states, plus one location in Canada, will be participating collectively in…
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Read More: #22: experimental escape routes needed“The films presented here make propositions or ‘escape routes’ from exhausted classical documentary forms … The overall aim is a gradual construction of an alternative history—a history that has at…
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Read More: #21: focus on trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experienceMisinformation, and increasingly disinformation, is distorting the public’s ability to make sense of the world around them, threatening the democratic process around the globe. While not a new phenomenon, the…
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Read More: #20: stress related to immigration status is one result“The context of having a parent, sibling or relative without documentation, or not being documented oneself, is a unique stressor that cannot solely be understood as generic stress or trauma.…
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Read More: #19: our bill of rights isn’t up for debate“Let me reiterate: White House is blacklisting outlets for printing the truth. This is chilling. Our bill of rights isn’t up for debate.” @RepBarbaraLee [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYEfLm5dLMQ&w=560&h=315] “This is an undemocratic…
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Read More: #17: Barak Obama says “we won’t know what to protect”In writing about fakeness itself as a foundational element of YouTube in 2009, I bemoaned the chilling effects of Barack Obama being heralded as the “YouTube President.” Obama’s YouTube jam…
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Read More: #16: practice strategic contemplation
Practicing strategic contemplation—what Rosylyn Rhee explains as having “to be comfortable being uncomfortable [because] so much of making documentary films is embracing the unknown”—is one of six “principles of feminist…
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Read More: #14: skepticism is a weapon and a qualityPlease feel free to use and share all or part of the CUNY J-School Research Center’s LibGuide for Reporters on Fact Checking, Verification & Fake News. Tabs include: • Checklists and…
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Read More: #13: conservatism trends toward performance artJeremy Peters writes today in the NYTimes: “Many on the right are pointing to the Yiannopoulos controversies as a symptom of a trend toward conservatism as performance art.” Read More…