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Daily Telegraph Stops Publishing Propaganda From China Following BuzzFeed News Story
Read more: Daily Telegraph Stops Publishing Propaganda From China Following BuzzFeed News StoryThe British broadsheet had been publishing material from People’s Daily and China Daily, propaganda arms of the Chinese Communist Party. ICYMI, here’s my latest in BuzzFeed News and The Guardian. Via “A British Newspaper Has Given Chinese Coronavirus Propaganda a Direct Line to the UK” by Dean Sterling Jones, BuzzFeed News, April 1, 2020: When…
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Muck Rack Verified (Then Unverified) These Seemingly Fake Journalists
Read more: Muck Rack Verified (Then Unverified) These Seemingly Fake JournalistsPetar Mikonoss and Dragana Stepic purportedly write for once-popular women’s site The Frisky. There’s no evidence either of them actually exist. In its heyday, The Frisky was one of the most beloved women’s sites on the internet. Founded by Turner Broadcasting in 2008, the site offered a “unique brand of funny, informative and relatable content…
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BuzzFeed News: Hackers Breaking Into Sites and Adding Links to Game Google
Read more: BuzzFeed News: Hackers Breaking Into Sites and Adding Links to Game GoogleGoogle made the link a valuable commodity, so hackers are compromising sites and then getting paid to inject links. ICYMI, here’s my latest byline for BuzzFeed News Via “Hackers Are Breaking Into Websites And Adding Links To Game Google” by Craig Silverman and Dean Sterling Jones, BuzzFeed News, December 18, 2019: …Websites of all types…
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Journalism 404
Read more: Journalism 404Don’t miss this Columbia Journalism Review Q&A with former editors of The Frisky, whose transformation from popular women’s site to pay-to-play nightmare I documented for BuzzFeed News source Earlier this year, I wrote an investigative story for BuzzFeed News about how a Serbian music producer had purchased The Frisky — once one of the most…
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Maria Butina Pens Article for Russian Think Tank Run by U.S.-Sanctioned Kremlin Policy Adviser
Read more: Maria Butina Pens Article for Russian Think Tank Run by U.S.-Sanctioned Kremlin Policy AdviserThe article appears to be the first in a regular column published by the Foundation for the Protection of National Values, an obscure Russian think tank run by sanctioned Kremlin mass media policy adviser Alexander Malkevich source Maria Butina is teaming up with a Russian think tank whose founder allegedly has close ties to the…
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WaPo Cites Article I Co-Authored for The Daily Beast
Read more: WaPo Cites Article I Co-Authored for The Daily BeastWaPo’s story, about the Wikipedia fact-checking community, cited a July 2018 story I co-authored with Daily Beast political reporter Lachlan Markay Via “Checking the Web on Hunter Biden? A 36-year-old physicist helps decide what you’ll see,” by Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Washington Post, September 25, 2019: Wikipedia’s rules of engagement have gradually accreted over the years.…
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Reason: Indian Government Attempts to Remove Material From Western Sites
Read more: Reason: Indian Government Attempts to Remove Material From Western SitesReason magazine’s The Volokh Conspiracy hoists Indian cyber police for making frivolous legal demand to censor this blog Via “Indian Government Attempts to Remove Material from Western Sites,” by Eugene Volokh, Reason, August 27, 2019: Northern Irish blogger Dean Sterling Jones reports on a successful demand that Buzzfeed remove the photo, and on an unsuccessful…
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BuzzFeed News: Underground Economy Selling Links From Big News Sites
Read more: BuzzFeed News: Underground Economy Selling Links From Big News SitesShady online marketers are selling links in articles on the New York Times, BBC, CNN, and other news sites. ICYMI, here’s my latest for BuzzFeed News. Via “There’s An Underground Economy Selling Links From The New York Times, BBC, CNN, And Other Big News Sites,” by Dean Sterling Jones, BuzzFeed News, July 26, 2019: In…
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ThinkProgress Shout-out
Read more: ThinkProgress Shout-outThinkProgress cites Shooting the Messenger story re: Russian propaganda site Yesterday, Shooting the Messenger and American news website ThinkProgress published stories about efforts by Russian propagandist Alexander Malkevich and others to help raise money for convicted Russian agent Maria Butina. The ThinkProgress story, by investigative reporter Casey Michel, cited some of my previous work on…