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Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
October 12, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News [link removed]
In Today's news: Daily Caller reporters say police used excessive force on them, Twitter will block retweets and likes of misleading content by U.S. candidates, and Facebook orders content moderators back into the office while other employees remain working from home.
Top Stories
Daily Caller reporters say cops beat them with nightsticks during Wauwatosa protest ([link removed])
Robert Gearty / Fox News / Oct 10, 2020

Twitter to block ‘misleading’ retweets from US candidates [Subscription required] ([link removed])
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times / Oct 9, 2020

Facebook orders content moderators to come back to the office ([link removed])
Nicolas Vega / New York Post / Oct 9, 2020

Coronavirus
People use, on average, six different sources to gather information about Covid-19 ([link removed])
Sarah Scire / Nieman Journalism Lab / Oct 9, 2020

Social Media
Facebook tweaked its rules, but you can still target voters ([link removed])
Sidney Fussell / Wired / Oct 12, 2020

Television News
NBC ripped by local news staffers in NYC over ‘unfair’ COVID-19 testing ([link removed])
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post / Oct 9, 2020

View: How Team Trump used Fox News as a laundromat for unverified Russian information about top Democrats ([link removed])
Oliver Darcy, Zachary Cohen, Marshall Cohen / CNN / Oct 11, 2020

About Misinformation
QAnon is tearing families apart ([link removed])
Travis M. Andrews / The Washington Post / Oct 12, 2020

Social Media
On Facebook, misinformation is more popular now than in 2016 ([link removed])
Davey Alba / The New York Times / Oct 12, 2020

Crowds of regular people are as good at moderating fake news on Facebook as professional fact-checkers ([link removed])
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Journalism Lab / Oct 9, 2020

Media Business
“I’ve lost count of the number of fires I’ve covered this year”: How journalists stay safe covering U.S. wildfires ([link removed])
Lucy Westcott, James W. Foley / Committee to Protect Journalists / Oct 9, 2020

View: Climate crisis: does journalism actually make a difference? ([link removed])
Jonathan Watts / The Guardian / Oct 9, 2020

Media Ethics
View: An arrest in Canada casts a shadow on a New York Times Star, and The Times ([link removed])
Ben Smith / The New York Times / Oct 11, 2020


The Daily Briefing of Media News is edited by Amy Mitchell and Katerina Eva Matsa and compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including: Michael Barthel, Jeffrey Gottfried, Maya Khuzam, Elisa Shearer, Galen Stocking, Mason Walker and Kirsten Worden.


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