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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: #18: a cultural change about how we make sense of information requiredIn a move of admirable self-criticism—one I feel sympathetic to as myself a card-carrying member of the American critical new media left—danah boyd asks “did media literacy backfire?” “Addressing so-called…
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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…
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Read More: #12: we need things to help us get closer to the truthMike Caufield, in his online book Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, writes: The web gives us many such strategies and tactics and tools, which, properly used, can get students closer…
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Read More: #11: real apologies for #fakenews aggravate its symptomsIn “20th Century Fox Gives Real Apology for a Fake News Campaign,” the chief executive of the public relations company Edelman engages in revealing doublespeak. He reflects upon the use…
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Read More: #10: YouTube is a performatively self-aware political-economyYouTube is a new kind of nation-state rooted in, and ruled by, self-aware performances about the rules and truths of its own conditions and practices. Like the internet it is…
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Read More: #9: YouTube is less platform than emerging internet nation-state#100truths-fakenews #9 is taken from John Herman’s “YouTube Monster: PewDiePie and His Populist Revolt,” NYTimes, February 16, 2017: For now, most of the biggest internet platforms are understood as venues…