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How The Truth Was Murdered Digitally Lit #263 – 10/10/2020 Welcome back to Digitally Literate and issue #263. Let’s face it, a lot happens each week in the news. A lot of important bits and pieces. I use this space each week to take time to highlight the things you need to know and provide…
For the longest time, we thought that as speech became more democratized, democracy itself would flourish. But in 2018, it is increasingly clear that more speech can in fact threaten democracy.
Zeynep Tufecki in Politico Magazine. All annotations in context. But in the digital age, when speech can exist mostly unfettered, the big threat to truth looks very different. It’s not just censorship, but an avalanche of undistinguished speech—some true, some false, some fake, some important, some trivial, much of it out-of-context, all burying us. Perhaps…
Claire Wardle in the Columbia Journalism Review. All annotations in context. The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones called Twitter a “self-cleaning oven,” suggesting that false information could be flagged and self-corrected almost immediately. We no longer had to wait 24 hours for a newspaper to issue a correction. Jeff Jarvis wrote over the weekend, we need to be careful…
Thread by @justinhendrix: “1/ The British Parliamentary committee looking into misinformation- @DCMS- has just published its interim report. It’s worth reading as I be […]”
D-CENT project (Decentralised Citizens Engagement Technologies) that has been working to transform democracy – helping movements, cities and political parties to build technologies, methods and tools that can make the democratic system work for 21st century aspirations. D-CENT is a Europe-wide project creating open, secure and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment. A federated architecture –…