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Bogus “news” stories feed on confusion and rage

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Why do people share their shock and outrage over amazing and incredible "news" stories from questionable sources? Why do they continue to comment and share these stories, even after they know them to be bogus? The story of the 60-year-old woman who supposedly shot and killed two teenagers who punched her.'

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In Other Social Media News Generalissimo Franco is Still Dead

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A few weeks ago, before New Years, Time magazine announced that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was its 2010 Person of the Year. Many thought the recognition was a year or two behind the curve. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was a runner-up in the magazine's ratings. Too bad Time went with.

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Questioning the Value of the PR Fiasco Retrospective

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It's standard behavior to rush to the call for investigation and change in response to every news item. If a brick falls from a fifth-story window and hits someone on the head, the evening news can be counted on to look into the shortcomings of the brick industry, and.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Alien Baby

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The origin of last week's Facebook shutdown rumor is no less a prestigious news organization than the Weekly World News. Instead of reading the blogs about the scam, I Googled the item and went straight to the source so I could form my own opinions. I was stunned by how.

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I never would have dreamed this in “J-school”

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The two Soviet house newspapers were Pravda (The Truth) and Izvestia (The News). The old joke was "There's no news in The. I was reading an article on Pravda's web site, and this window popped up: When I was in journalism school there was still a thing called the Soviet Union.

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Facebook Contextual Ads Insensitive to Boston Tragedy

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News and commentary about yesterday''s tragic events in Boston are dominating my feed on Facebook, but there, in the middle of it all, I was appalled to see a pathetic, contextual ad for the Zoosk dating site, with a montage of all the smiling hotties that were dying to meet.'

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Social media love is all you need

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It seems that nearly every news item that makes its way onto Twitter or Facebook is first expressed through reportage (simple links and tweets with headlines), followed by a fire hose of hate and mockery, and sometimes a backlash against the backlash. A couple examples include: Susan Boyle: "Her popularity in Britain.