Five on Friday — Snap Map, fake tweets
Five things we’ve learned this week about media, journalism and everything between.
- People faked tweets from a journalist during the Florida school shooting
Adding this to the list of behaviours we may see following a breaking news event, Miami Herald reporter Alex Harris saw here tweets to eyewitnesses doctored. The altered tweets not only made it impossible for Harris to do her job, but only serve to feed the distress, distrust and misinformation related to such terrible events.
2. Snap Map for newsgathering
A new tool for journalists searching for social stories as Snap Map moves from within Snapchat to its own website.
Snap Map stories offer some anonymity to users by not including screen names. It’s hard to spoof the system, however, because you can only post from your GPS location; you can’t, say, pretend to be in New York if you’re really in Berlin.
Good and bad news for verification.
3. What Facebook wants from news partners
Perhaps file this under know your enemy as Facebook opines on the future of journalism. A revealing report on a conference appearance by Facebook’s news partnerships’ head Campbell Brown:
This is not about us trying to make everybody happy. My job is not to make publishers happy. My job is to ensure that there is quality news on Facebook and that the publishers who want to be on Facebook and want to do quality news on Facebook have a business model that works. That’s very different. So if anyone feels that this isn’t the right platform for them, then they should not be on Facebook. I don’t see us as the answer to the problem.
4. How much money do publishers make from Facebook and Google?
That thing we were all worried about — it’s true. There’s a paucity of data on this which is what makes the research from Digital Content Next, which represents publishers, so interesting.
In the first half of 2017, publishers that took part in the study took in $10 million from third-party platforms, representing 16 percent of their total digital revenue. That’s nearly flat with the first half of 2016, when third-party revenue was 14 percent. That’s pocket change for Google and Facebook, which together took in more than $52 billion in digital ad revenue just in the U.S. in 2017.
5. The gold medal for graphics goes to…
Nothing to say about this except it’s great.
