Keeping It Real – Technology's Impact on Trustworthy News
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Panel argues major platforms now act as news arbiters and cites concrete markers: Facebook’s stock dip of $100 billion loss, teams of 17 engineers shaping newsfeeds, and Facebook hiring ~20,000 content moderators. Evidence includes publisher shifts—The New York Times growing from 1M to 3.5 million subscribers—and early failures of ad hoc fact‑checking partnerships. Proposed fixes range from a Data for Democracy pledge to MIT’s underlay knowledge graph for provenance; vetnews audits 50 outlets and finds many lack public ethics standards.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:35Beyond political silos
- 6:47Tech platforms as news arbiters
- 10:23Citizen journalism limits
- 11:26Ethics in algorithm design
- 12:30Neutrality ideology in tech
- 16:16Hiring editors on platforms?
- 19:11Internet structure and misinformation
- 23:09Ideal news systems
- 26:13Media literacy foundation
- 26:59Anonymized sources problem
- 28:06Inequality in news access
- 30:13Tech fueling extremism
- 33:43Authority and provenance rating
- 36:53Human-tech solutions
- 38:42Brainstorming solutions
- 42:00Ad-driven business model
- 43:47Public service broadcasting
- 46:22Trust indicator system
- 47:45Marginalized voices in solutions
- 48:48Dismantling news monopolies
- 50:41Wall Street influence on tech
- 51:46Summary
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