The Media Stories for 2016

Pull Requests Are Accepted At About The Same Rate, Regardless of Gender 94
David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test 309
Are We Seeing Propaganda About Russian Propaganda? 335
The US Government Funds A War On Online Fake News 360
Drupal Event Apologizes For Giving Out Copies Of Playboy 251
Crowdsourced Volunteers Search For Solutions To Fake News 270
Science Journals Caught Publishing Fake Research For Cash 137
False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads 158
Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem 624
Mark Zuckerberg Announces Facebook Will Fight Fake News -- Next To An Ad With Fake News 149
Gawker Pays $750,000 To That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email 121
'Armies' of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns 214
More NFL Players Attack Microsoft's $400M Surface Deal With The NFL 236
AT&T Buys Time Warner For $85B. Is The Mass Media Consolidating? 132
Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? 361
Journalist Cleared of Riot Charges in South Dakota 79
Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? 252
Group Wants To Shut Down Tor For a Day On September 1 229
Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? 296
Ask Slashdot: Should I Expect Tracking When Subscribing To News Sites? 206
Hacker Magazine Phrack Returns After Four-year Hiatus 32
Unofficial Answers: Why Does YouTube Seem So Biased? 178
One Million School Children To Get Free BBC Micro:bit Computers 157
Infamous French Hacker Calls Internet a "Digital Shantytown" 82
Comcast Failed To Install Internet, Then Demanded $60,000 In Fees 139
Facebook's 'Closed Silos' Pose Challenges To Open Web 77
Malvertising Campaign Hits MSN, NY Times, BBC, AOL 159
Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' 741
Research Establishes 13-Hour Gap Between Viral Misinformation and Correction 54
Valve Announces New Portal Content For Virtual Reality 30
Anonymous Hacks Donald Trump's Voicemail and Leaks the Messages 314
CRTC Enforced $25/mo Cable TV Is Now Available To Canadians, But With Caveats 194
FCC Complaints For the 2016 Primary Debates 178
UK Gov't Launches Anti-Adblocking Initiative, Compares It To Piracy 317
How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear 532
Scribd To Change Its 'Unlimited' E-book Subscription Plan To Semi-Unlimited 55
End of an Era As Pioneering BBC3 Becomes an Online-Only Station 85
Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers 146
Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers 287
Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription 675
Adblock Plus Maker Seeks Deal With Ad Industry Players 356
In Japan, a Battle Brewing Over the Right To Record 4k and 8k Broadcasts 105
Anti-Malware Maker Files Lawsuit Over Bad Review 163
Julian Assange May Surrender To British Police On Friday 327
How To Build a TimesMachine 41
Price Dispute Means 800k Customers Lose TV Channels In Sweden 164
Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? 832
Arnnon Geshuri, Newest Wikimedia Trustee, Forced To Resign 104
Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management 1310
The Widely Reported ISIS Encrypted Messaging App Is Not Real 113
Explaining the Lack of Quality Journalism In the Internet Age 311
Forbes Asks Readers To Disable Adblock, Serves Up Malvertising 406
Cuba's Nationwide Sneakernet: a Model For Developing Nations? 108
FOSS Force is a FOSS News and Commentary Site (Video) 41
BBC Taken Offline By 'Anti-IS' Group 150