Guardian Australia news editor Shelley Hepworth speaks to renowned author Salman Rushdie about his plans to release his newest novella – The Seventh Wave – on popular newsletter website Substack. He also shares how Covid-19 has impacted his creative process and the potential social media offers for writers wanting to Continue Reading
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Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election, study says- Tempemail
A new study of user behaviour on Facebook around the 2020 election is likely to bolster long-standing arguments from critics that the company’s algorithms fuel the spread of misinformation over more trustworthy sources. The forthcoming peer-reviewed study by researchers at New York University and the Université Grenoble Alpes in France Continue Reading
AP News Digest 7 a.m.- Tempemail
Here are the AP’s latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EDT. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan at https://newsroom.ap.org. _____________ TOP STORIES ____________ TROPICAL WEATHER-ATLANTIC — The tropical depression Henri appears to be lingering in the Northeast, raising the prospect it will Continue Reading
AP News Digest 3 a.m.- Tempemail
Here are the AP’s latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EDT. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan at https://newsroom.ap.org. _____________ TOP STORIES ____________ TROPICAL WEATHER-ATLANTIC — The tropical depression Henri appears to be lingering in the Northeast, raising the prospect it will Continue Reading
Transfer news and rumours: Tottenham ‘consider Chelsea’s Kurt Zouma’ as Newcastle ‘target Leicester’s Hamza Choudhury’- Tempemail
Tottenham are keen on Chelsea’s Kurt Zouma, report Sky Sports, with the 26-year-old joining Fiorentina’s Nikola Milenkovic on their wish list to strengthen at the back. The Blues value Zouma at £25m, while West Ham are also keen and have made Zouma their No 1 target. Chelsea want Sevilla’s Jules Continue Reading
Twitter to allow Australian users to flag potential misinformation during month-long trial | Australia news- Tempemail
Australian Twitter users will be allowed to report potentially misleading content as part of a new experiment in monitoring misinformation on the platform. Twitter users from Wednesday will be able to flag tweets that seem misleading, via a new option on the platform’s content reporting mechanism. The option to report Continue Reading
‘Spreading like a virus’: inside the EU’s struggle to debunk Covid lies | World news- Tempemail
In April 2020, near the start of the global pandemic, Felix Kartte was working 14-hour shifts as an EU policy officer, struggling to monitor a barrage of coronavirus-linked disinformation. Articles claiming that the pandemic was a hoax, that it was caused by 5G, that it could be cured by hydroxychloroquine Continue Reading
Transfer news and rumours: Manchester United ‘drop Jesse Lingard price tag’ in boost to West Ham’s transfer hopes- Tempemail
What the papers say West Ham have received a boost in their pursuit of Jesse Lingard after Manchester United dropped their asking price to around £20million, according to the Daily Express. The Sun says Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is confident Paul Pogba will sign a new contract to extend his stay at Old Trafford after Continue Reading
‘I’m not a news robot reading an Autocue’: Clive Myrie on politics, personality and Mastermind | Television & radio- Tempemail
There is one correct way to start an interview with the new host of Mastermind: turn the tables on him – put him in the chair, under the spotlight. He hasn’t prepared a specialist subject, though, so I pick one for him, an easy one: the life and work of Continue Reading
‘Stick with the facts’: Greg Hunt’s plea to politicians after LNP senator’s ‘false’ Facebook Covid posts | Australia news- Tempemail
The federal health minister, Greg Hunt, has appealed to “everybody to stick with the facts” on Covid-19 after Facebook marked a recent post by a Liberal Tempemail party colleague as containing “false information”. “Our view is very clear – that we set out the official medical advice, and we urge Continue Reading