Comments sections: how to manage them
Comments sections have forever changed the relationship between journalists and readers, so what are your options as a journalist adapting to the new form of social media based journalism?
Month: December 2023
The Onion: blurred line between satire and fake news delivers facts but only to loyal readers?
The humour of the publication often relies on sensationalizing mundane, everyday events as if they were newsworthy, surreal, or frightening
Threads user’s profile de-linked from Instagram, can be deleted separately
Many changes are being brought by Mosseri on Threads to lure new users as well as make the platform friendly and “Twitter-like” for users who joined it in July 2023 with a new hope to get away Musk’s tyranny of subscriptions
Pebble, promising rival of X (formerly Twitter), reincarnates within a month of its demise?
“We weren’t growing fast enough to convince investors of a breakout,” wrote Pebble Co-founder and CEO, Gabor Cselle, in a Pebble post
The Rise of AI in Journalism: Promise and Peril
As Elon Musk described artificial intelligence (AI) as an enormously disruptive force to UK Prime
X’s Verification Revamp: A New Frontier or a Misinformation Minefield?
When Elon Musk bought Twitter – now rebranded as X – last fall, he promised more free
Is LinkedIn a good replacement for X (formerly Twitter)?
LinkedIn definitely seems to be user-friendly than X, however, the users on the latter still seems to look for alternatives on other platforms which can promise to be more “Twitter-like” and not as formal as LinkedIn
How to Spot Deepfakes
There are a variety of techniques that can be used to help you spot deepfakes,
Pornographic websites to tighten age verification in line with Online Safety Act
Ofcom are collaborating with websites containing pornographic content to introduce proper age checks, in light
Video content crucial to reach people who don`t go to church
The Methodist Church of Great Britain has found that video content of their recent Christmas
Apple Vision Pro: A journalist’s guide to this new VR headset
Apple Vision Pro is a VR goggle that lets you experience using a computer through
How YouTube’s ad blocker clampdown is targeting non-Chrome users – and how to bypass its firewalls
YouTube is adding five-second delays to videos for non-Chrome users, many users have reported. This
Meta’s Threads finally to launch in Europe
Threads, the short form blogging platform created by Meta, is making its long-awaited debut in
How can Social Platforms combat Deepfakes?
Deepfake technology has been described as “perhaps the most immediately tangible, damaging application” of artificial
Will Elon Musk’s “X” be replaced by Bluesky?
Most of us have likely come across the name Bluesky Social by now—the earliest social