Be cautious with the “science” in science news feeds on social media
Four examples of questionable science from a popular social media science news feed.
Tag: Social Media
Critical Eye: Do lobby groups and political parties stage fake front group campaigns?
A newspaper article has accused an anti-Safe Schools advocate of staging a fake front group campaign on behalf of the Liberal Party of Australia and the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL).
What YOU can do about fake news
Fake news would cease to be a problem if people stopped falling for it and circulating it, so there’s much that we as media consumers can do.
What can be done about the growing problem of false online information?
A new platform called “Hoaxy” is showing promise in tackling the growing problem of misinformation online.
It’s time to switch off the life support for email
Further evidence in support of my argument that we need to abandon email in favour of messaging as soon as possible.
Why we need to put email out of our misery, and how we can do it
There is a dark side to email overload, so we need to stop rearranging the deck chairs on the email Titanic and instead implement a genuine solution.
Mainstream and social media reaction to the Brussels terror attacks: has anything changed since Paris?
Has the mainstream and social media response to these Brussels terror attacks been any different to the response to the Paris terror attacks?
Email isn’t dead, but it is ageing: How young people now communicate online
Stories about email thriving into the future are missing important factors: changes in demographics, and the rapid rise of something new beyond social media.
Paris terror attacks: exploring the mainstream and social media reaction
Have the mainstream media and social media responded appropriately to the Paris terror attacks?