organization:s. and james l. knight foundation

How journalists can avoid being manipulated by trolls seeking to spread disinformation

To fight the spread of disinformation through the media, journalists and their allies need to understand the tactics of the #trolls who willfully promote those lies, said Joan Donovan, the project lead on media manipulation at Data & Society.

“This is an adversarial movement trying to destabilize the entire institution of journalism,” Donovan said during a panel on “Trust: Tools to Improve the Flow of Accurate Information” at the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas, on April 13. Jennifer Preston, vice president for journalism at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, led the panel.

The potential for willfully spreading disinformation is especially true when news is breaking, and separating the truth from lies is very difficult for journalists trying to nab a scoop under deadline pressure, Donovan said.

▻https://ijnet.org/en/blog/how-journalists-can-avoid-being-manipulated-trolls-seeking-spread-disinformat

#manipulation #désinformation #médias #journalisme #presse
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Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform With New York Times and Washington Post - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/business/media/new-york-times-and-washington-post-to-develop-platform-for-readers-contribu

The New York Times and The Washington Post announced on Thursday that they had teamed up with Mozilla to develop a new platform to better manage their readers’ online comments and contributions.

The platform will be supported by a grant of roughly $3.9 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which promotes innovation in journalism.

(...) The platform, which will take approximately two years to complete, will eventually be available for other news organization to download free.

#commentaires #presse #logiciel_libre #funding

Emergency Manager seeks to extort $100 million from Detroit Institute of Arts - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/01/18/detr-j18.html

Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr met with officials from the Detroit Institute of Arts Thursday to demand that the museum contribute $100 million to the “rescue” package being assembled by Governor Rick Snyder and a group of wealthy foundations, including the Ford Foundation, the Kresge Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The proposed deal would raise $330 million from the nine foundations and another $350 million from the state, with the money supposedly going to “protect” the DIA and city workers’ pensions from the impact of the bankruptcy.

#detroit #états_unis