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Journalism & Media
October 12, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
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
Robert Gearty / Fox News / Oct 10, 2020


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


Facebook orders content moderators to come back to the office
Nicolas Vega / New York Post / Oct 9, 2020

Coronavirus

People use, on average, six different sources to gather information about Covid-19
Sarah Scire / Nieman Journalism Lab / Oct 9, 2020

Social Media

Facebook tweaked its rules, but you can still target voters
Sidney Fussell / Wired / Oct 12, 2020

Television News

NBC ripped by local news staffers in NYC over ‘unfair’ COVID-19 testing
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
Oliver Darcy, Zachary Cohen, Marshall Cohen / CNN / Oct 11, 2020

About Misinformation

QAnon is tearing families apart
Travis M. Andrews / The Washington Post / Oct 12, 2020

Social Media

On Facebook, misinformation is more popular now than in 2016
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
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
Lucy Westcott, James W. Foley / Committee to Protect Journalists / Oct 9, 2020


View: Climate crisis: does journalism actually make a difference?
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
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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