Articles of interest about journalism, fakes, social media & more - March 15
/***COVID 19
Why We Can’t Make Vaccine Doses Any Faster
***JOURNALISM
When writing about race, abuse follows. Especially for journalists of color and women
How Yahoo News reached 1 million followers on TikTok in 1 year
Journalists face record levels of persecution globally
News deserts and weak ethics laws allow corruption to run rampant in SC
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Most local papers are gasping for life, and if they die it will be their readers who lose the most
Less than a third of the world’s top editors at major outlets are women
America rebalances its post-Trump news diet
BuzzFeed Announces Deep Cuts To HuffPost Staff After Acquisition
Donald Trump Loses Libel Suit Against N.Y. Times
***FREE SPEECH
Des Moines reporter's acquittal lauded as victory for press freedom
How the Russian government accidentally blocked its own websites
***WRITING & READING
Rod Serling talks to college students about the craft of writing
***FAKES, FRAUDS & SCAMS
How to stop robocalls: Every way we know to block the annoying scam phone calls
I went down the ‘rabbit hole’ to debunk misinformation – here’s what I learned
***DEEP FAKES
Pa. woman created ‘deepfake’ videos to force rivals off daughter’s cheerleading squad: police
Slick Tom Cruise Deepfakes Signal That Near Flawless Forgeries May Be Here
***COVID MISINFORMATION
YouTube removed 30,000 videos with COVID misinformation
QAnon groups switches focus to attacks on coronavirus vaccines
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Hootsuite's Social Media Image
He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can't fix its misinformation addiction
How Different Are Americans’ Facebook Feeds?
Instagram led users to Covid misinformation amid pandemic – report
Texas Wants to Ban Facebook and Twitter ... From Banning
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Microsoft Confident Exchange Hack Is State-Sponsored Operation
Here's what we know so far about the massive Microsoft Exchange hack
***LANGUAGE
Meet the people fighting to keep a language alive online
***BOOKS & LITERATURE
50 Very Bad Book Covers for Literary Classics
Want to borrow that e-book from the library? Sorry, Amazon won’t let you.
***POETRY
Why kids need poetry in their lives, and how to spark their interest in it
Margaret Atwood pens poetry for new songs about violence against women