Archive - October 17th, 2016

How do we respond to threats after our endorsement? This is how

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“To the anonymous caller who invoked the name of Don Bolles — he’s the Republic reporter who was assassinated by a car bomb 40 years ago — and threatened that more of our reporters would be blown up because of the endorsement, I give you Kimberly. She is the young woman who answered the phone […]

Anatomy of a Media Conspiracy

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“The leaked emails make for instructive reading nonetheless, though they can be somewhat uncomfortable, if you happen to be the author and recipient of a few of them.” How WikiLeaks made the author a talking point for Trump. via Facebook http://ift.tt/2dvhxhm through IFTTT

Aram Zucker-Scharff on Twitter

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Just for you: an extra special Tweetstorm about content fraud – “So a #bcni16 followup moment in #contentfraud in the land of Games Journalism: Red Dead Redemption https://t.co/6EXI00wOV5” via Facebook https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/788015864285134848 through IFTTT

How to Illegally Sway an Election Using “Sponsored Content” – ART + marketing

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“Those unlabeled ads were first placed in Outbrain and ShareThrough “sponsored content” ad units in media outlets like The Washington Post, CNN, New York Post and The Houston Chronicle. “According to financial filings, No Oakland Grocery Tax PAC has spent $39,562 with Outbrain as of September 30 (.pdf — see Schedule G). “The ads simply […]