Vanity Fair decided to do a year-end video dedicated to Hillary Clinton. Maybe it's time for Hillary Clinton to take up a new hobby in 2018 pic.twitter.com/sbE78rA5At — VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 23, 2017 It has not gone over well. Probably before the young women in this video were born, around the time she was […]
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The Washington Post published an in-depth piece about Putin’s misinformation campaign that impacted on the 2016 Presidential campaign. In it they mentioned a writer going by the name of Alice Donovan. Rather than the ‘beginning freelance writer’ this Donovan claimed to be, the individual was a fake, a contrived persona, and a source of misinformation. […]
I had an email exchange with Gene Emery of PolitiFact about a couple of its fact-checks related to the Clinton emails. PolitiFact just tweeted that it updated the ratings for one of them. Our re-rated item of @HillaryClinton‘s claim about whether emails were classified. https://t.co/0qmEVuKsMK pic.twitter.com/mhWmrWBuWF — PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) August 5, 2016 I have to […]
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Rethinking our Twitter Twitchy Actions
Very interesting piece by Sam Bibble at Gawker on Justine Sacco. Sacco was the PR person who tweeted a bit of satire that blew up in her face, and almost destroyed her career. The problem with Twitter is every post lacks context. You don’t know the person to know if they’re joking. You haven’t seen the […]
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Ferguson: Media, You are Hurting Us
The story read that the FBI had arrested two New Black Panther members for buying explosives to bomb Ferguson protests. Not long after, though, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch posted a story that what really happened is the FBI arrested two men for providing false information when buying guns. And the New Black Panther association? Well, that’s […]