Privacy protection strategies on Facebook
…restricted access to their Wall, and 71% limited access to their news feed. The researchers found that “some students fear that despite restricting their photo visibility to ‘only friends,’ they…
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Measuring pay-per-install: The commoditization of malware distribution
…including spam bots, fake antivirus programs, information-stealing trojans, denial-of-service bots and adware. In an analysis of 313,791 binaries, the study was able to identify and learn from 12 of the…
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Syllabus: Critical thinking, ethics and knowledge-based practice in visual media
…many newspapers and magazines have been downsizing their newsrooms, investments in video, in particular, have been growing. For example, in 2014 the New York Times doubled the size of its…
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Americans view the coronavirus pandemic through a lens of media trust and politics
…the beginning warned Americans that the virus was real and they had to be careful. Whereas Hannity said at the beginning that it was a hoax and fake news and…
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Academic journals, journalists perpetuate misinformation in their handling of research retractions, a new study finds
…notices, extracted from the Retraction Watch database. To measure how much attention the papers received — before and after their retractions — from news outlets, social media and other…
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The current and projected health risks of climate change
…that journalists can play a role as well. “I think journalists have an absolutely crucial role, particularly in this era of ‘fake news,’” Haines said. “Journalists have a very important…
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Voter fraud, perceptions and political spin: Research roundup
…win, Trump claimed that he lost the popular vote due to 3 million or more fake votes. Fears about electoral fraud resonate broadly. A September 2016 Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 46…
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Prince Harry in Afghanistan: Miguel Head shares the story of a historic media blackout
…news about the Royal Family. But for 10 weeks in late 2007 and early 2008, hundreds of news organizations agreed to embargo a big story: Prince Harry had been deployed…
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Trusting science leaves people vulnerable to believing pseudoscience, new research finds
…their news story to coverage from other news outlets. Albarracín wrote in her e-mail that good source checkers would have discovered that the study on GMOs mentioned in one of…
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Elite college admissions: A preference for athletes and legacy students
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Operation Varsity Blues, the college admissions bribery scandal involving fake test scores and athletic credentials, has raised questions about how much of an edge student…
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