國際傳媒:2021/10/29~2021/11/04

2021 年 11 月 05 日 | 媒大事

國際傳媒:2021/10/29~2021/11/04

????  Washington Post 《華盛頓郵報》|20211028

✅  Misinformation online is bad in English. But it’s far worse in Spanish.

網上英文不實資訊的狀況不好,但西文情況更糟!

The release of internal Facebook documents showing that the platform isn’t doing enough to stop a flood of lies and misinformation has sparked outrage nationwide. As bad as these problems are in English, though, they are even worse in other languages: Facebook has admitted its platform was used to incite violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar, and in the Philippines, the site helped fuel a vicious drug war and attacks on dissident journalists. Social media platforms are allowing far more misinformation to spread in other languages than they are in English.

????  VICE 北美報導國際藝術、文化和新聞方面主題雜誌《Vice》|20211029

✅  She Created an Ultra-Partisan News Agency; Now Billionaires Are Giving Her Funding to Fight Disinformation

她創造了超黨派新聞通訊社;現在億萬富豪正資助她打擊虛假資訊!

Tara McGowan has been accused of creating pro-Democratic Party propaganda; now she’s pledging to fight the “information crisis.”

????  The Guardian 英國《衛報》|20211031

✅  Climate crisis is real but you wouldn’t know from watching Fox Weather

氣候危機是真的,但你看福斯氣象就不會知道!

Hosts on Fox News have spent years rubbishing or undermining the idea of human-caused climate breakdown, and the fact that two Fox News-linked executives were behind the Fox Weather launch meant the worries might be well-founded.

????  Journalists Resource  哈佛大學肖倫斯坦中心《記者資源》*|20211101

✅  How the Internet of Things poses a threat to journalists

物聯網如何對記者構成威脅?

A cybersecurity researcher discusses the IoT devices journalists might encounter at work and at home — and how these devices can threaten their work and wellbeing.

*編註:《記者資源》是哈佛大學甘迺迪學院肖倫斯坦媒體政治與公共政策研究中心(Shorenstein Center)底下的一個計劃網站

????  REST OF WORLD  國際非營利新聞機構《海外》(報導全球科技新聞,記者團隊會說 20 種語言、來自 41 個國家,且在不斷增加中)|20211103

✅  Facebook’s language problem

臉書的語言問題

There are reasons, beyond lack of intent or underinvestment, for Facebook to delay building hate speech classifiers in foreign languages.

整理:朱弘川╱編譯:鄭凱榕