Media ReDesign: The New Realities
Before we start … 8
Stay informed 8
Know who the key players are 9
Create alliances and partnerships 9
'Truth in Media' Ecosystem 9
Keep a tally of solutions - and mess ups 9
Delve into the Underworld 10
Be prepared to unlearn everything you know 11
Stay connected 11
A final word 12
Stay Informed 13
Background 13
Initiatives 13
Robert Reich: Inequality Media 13
Dan Rather: On journalism & finding the truth in the news 14
Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers 14
Syllabus: Social Media Literacies 14
Bulletin Board 16
Upcoming Events 16
Ongoing Initiatives 17
High-Level Group on Fake News and online disinformation NEW 17
The News Literacy Project 17
Stony Brook’s Center for News Literacy 17
Past Events [Sample] 19
The Future of News in an Interconnected World 20
MisinfoCon: A Summit on Misinformation 20
Combating Fake News: An Agenda for Research and Action 21
Media Learning Seminar 21
The Future of News: Journalism in a Post-Truth Era 21
Dear President: What you need to know about race 22
Knight Foundation & Civic Hall Symposium on Tech, Politics, and the Media 22
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
UnFakingNews Working Group 22
In the News 24
Essential reads 24
Featured 25
General 25
Trump Presidency 26
International 27
Press Room: Research and articles related with this project 28
About Eli Pariser 32
Conferences 33
Related articles 33
Start of Document 35
Basic concepts 35
Definition of Fake News 37
Compilation of basic terms 37
Classifying fake news, fake media & fake sources 40
Considerations → Principles → The Institution of Socio - Economic Values 46
General Ideas 47
Behavioral economics and other disciplines 47
Human Editors 49
Under the Hood 52
Facebook 54
Analysis of Headlines and Content 59
Reputation systems 60
Verified sites 64
Distribution - Social Graph 68
Fact-Checking 70
Special databases 73
Interface - Design 74
Flags 75
Downrank, Suspension, Ban of accounts 77
Contrasting Narratives 78
Points, counterpoints and midpoints 79
Model the belief-in-true / belief-in-fake lifecycle 82
Verified Pages - Bundled news 83
Viral and Trending Stories 84
Patterns and other thoughts 86
Ad ecosystem 88
More ideas… 91
Factmata 99
FiB extension 99
Taboola and Outbrain involvement 99
WikiTribune 102
Verified Trail + Trust Rating 105
Bias Dynamics & Mental Models 108
Neuroscience of philosophical contentions 109
Thread by @thomasoduffy 109
Pattern & Patch Vulnerabilities to Fake News 111
The problem with “Fake News” 112
Surprising Validators 114
[Update] “A Cognitive Immune System for Social Media” based on “Augmenting the Wisdom of Crowds” 117
Snopes 119
Ideas in Spanish - Case Study: Mexico 122
Not just for Facebook to Solve 124
A Citizen Science (Crowd Work) Approach 128
The Old School Approach
Pay to Support Real Journalism 133
Critical Thinking 134
Media Literacy 135
Programs 136
Suggestions from a Trump Supporter on the other side of the cultural divide 138
Ethics of Fake News 144
Your mind is your reality 146
Who decides what is fake? 146
Journalism in an era of private realities 147
Propaganda 147
Scientific Method 147
Alternate realities 148
Legal aspects 151
First Amendment/ Censorship Issues 151
Espionage Act 152
Copyright 153
Trademarks 153
Libel 153
Online Abuse 156
Harassment 156
Trolling and Targeted Attacks 156
Threats 156
Hate Speech 156
Specialized Agencies 158
Rating Agencies 158
Media Governing Body 160
Specialized Models 162
Create a SITA for news 162
Outlier analysis 163
Transparency at user engagement 163
“FourSquare” for News 164
Delay revenue realisation for unverified news sources 164
Other ideas 164
Linked-Data, Ontologies and Verifiable Claims 168
Reading Corner - Resources 172
Social Networks 172
Facebook 172
Twitter 173
Google 173
Filter Bubbles 173
Automated Systems 175
Algorithms 175
User Generated Content 175
Dynamics of Fake Stories 177
Joined-up Thinking - Groupthink 177
Manipulation and ‘Weaponization’ of Data 177
Click Farms - Targeted attacks 178
Propaganda 178
Viral content 179
Satire 179
Behavioral Economics 181
Political Tribalism - Partisanship 182
Ethical Design 182
Journalism in the age of Trump 183
Cultural Divide 184
Cybersecurity 184
Experiences from Abroad 184
Media Literacy 184
Resources list for startups in this space 186
Interested in founding 186
Interested in advising 188
Interested in partnering 188
Interested in investing/funding 190
A Special Thank You 192
ANNEX 195
Themes and keywords to look for 195
Hashtags 200
Fact Checking Guides 201
Selected reads 201
Russian interference 202
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Note: Hi, I am Eli, I started this document. Add idea below after a bullet point, preferably with attribution. Add +[your name] (+Eli) if you like someone else’s note. Bold key phrases if you can. Feel free to crib with attribution.
A number of the ideas below have significant flaws. It’s not a simple problem to solve -- some of the things that would pull down false news would also pull down news in general. But we’re in brainstorm mode.
* November 17, 2016
This document is maintained by @Media_ReDesign, with updates from an extraordinary community of collaborators spanning across many disciplines. Some topics are under the supervision of specific teams, as is the case of news updates, and the Event Calendar (partly updated, linked as a reference, for ideas). All the same, please feel free to contribute with your ideas, as we expand and continue on this journey.
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