The Media Stories for 2020

China Jails Citizen Journalist for Wuhan Reports 211
A Deepfake Queen Delivered an Alternative Christmas Speech to Warn about Misinformation 47
Are Cryptocurrencies Becoming Mainstream Investments? 135
Amazon Fire TV Adds Local News In 12 U.S. Cities, With 90 More Coming In 2021 20
What Hunting Bigfoot Taught a Republican Congressman about Misinformation, Political Extremists, and Grift 180
Conspiracy Theorists Who'd First Popularized QAnon Now Accused of Financial Motives 152
How Powerful Forces Collaborated to Peddle Misinformation about the Origins of the Coronavirus 280
Election-Related Misinformation on Social Media Still 'Readily Viewable' - If It's In Spanish 44
Snopes.com Exposes 4chan Campaign to 'Kindle Mistrust in Snopes' 264
Is QAnon an 8Chan Game Gone Wrong? 190
Google Halts Its Curated News Plan in Australia, Calling Government's Rules 'Unworkable' 52
Boardwatch/EVTV Founder Jack Rickard Dies at Age 65 23
Facebook Threatens To Cut Off Australians From Sharing News 52
Google Warns Australians it Really Doesn't Want to Pay for News 114
Larry King Duped Into 'Disinfomercial' on Social Media By China (and Possibly Russia) 100
Bill Gates Has a Message For Conspiracy Theorists 221
Full Text of US State Department Cables Finally Released, Showing Safety In Chinese Lab 220
Hundreds of Hyperpartisan Sites Are Masquerading as Local News 116
Is Twitter Shifting the Balance of Power From Companies to Their Employees? 64
Venture Capitalists' Critiques of Journalism Secretly Leaked to Journalists 118
Is Slashdot the Answer to Facebook's Fake News Problem? 284
US Senate Amends EARN IT Act -- To Let States Restrict Encryption 89
Minecraft Is Now Home To a Virtual Library of Censored Journalism 17
Journalist's Phone Hacked: All He Had To Do Was Visit a Website. Any Website. 123
Facebook Will Show Users a Pop-up Warning Before They Share an Outdated Story 44
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (of Technology) 47
Are News Outlets Responsible For Comments Left On Their Facebook Pages? 122
Microsoft Replaces Dozens of Staff With AI for News Stories on MSN 29
How Baidu's AI Produces News Videos Using Just a URL 18
Local News Stations Run Propaganda Segment Scripted and Produced by Amazon 61
Amazon's Audible Goes Beyond Books To Chase Spotify in Podcasts 1
The Public Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used To Portray COVID-19 349
The New York Times Phasing Out All 3rd-Party Advertising Data 28
Joe Rogan is Moving His Podcast, One of the World's Most Popular Podcasts, Exclusively To Spotify 146
Twitter To Label Disputed COVID-19 Tweets 86
'Murder Hornet' Meme Inspires Stupid Americans To Kill Pollinators En Masse 169
Australia Will Force Google and Facebook to Pay for News Content 149
Russia Accused of Deploying Coronavirus Disinformation to Sow Distrust 197
What Are the Best Free Streaming Services? 42
As Sacha Baron Cohen Criticizes Zuckerberg, Elon Musk Tweets "#DeleteFacebook' 165
Fake News Hoax in Russia Tries Blaming the US For Coronavirus 86

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