Articles of interest about journalism, fakes, social media & more - Nov 27
/***THE VIRUS
Their Teeth Fell Out. Was It Another Covid-19 Consequence? ($)
Evidence Builds That an Early Mutation Made the Pandemic Harder to Stop ($)
Oxford Covid vaccine hit 90% success rate thanks to dosing error
***JOURNALISM
Will journalists be considered front-line workers for COVID-19 vaccines?
Five Things I Learned Writing for a Newspaper
COVID-19 cases are increasing while interest in COVID-19 news drops
Journalists are facing threats, even in metro Phoenix (opinion)
The moral argument for diversity in newsrooms is also a business argument — and you need both
***OAN
YouTube temporarily suspends, demonetizes OANN
OAN Is So Dangerous Because It Looks Like a Real News Channel
An OAN Host Has Been Helping Rudy With Trump’s Legal Efforts
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
It’s time to hold editors accountable for harassed news workers
Apple is reducing the cut it takes from most news publishers’ subscriptions
Journalists face volatile media landscape
NYT and WaPo digital subscriptions tripled since 2016
BuzzFeed set to acquire HuffPost
***WRITING & READING
Oxford English Dictionary couldn't pick just one 'word of the year' for 2020
Malcolm X Biography Wins National Book Award
ViacomCBS sells Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House for $2 billion
2020 National Book Awards winners announced
***FAKES & FRAUDS
Our parents warned us the internet would break our brains. It broke theirs instead
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? ($)
How Taiwan is Beating Political Disinformation
Jupyter trojan: Newly discovered malware stealthily steals usernames and passwords
What Happened to the Deepfake Threat to the Election?
Debunking claims of election rigging (video)
China’s ‘paper mills’ are grinding out fake scientific research at an alarming rate
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Parler, the “free speech” Twitter wannabe, explained
Snapchat launches a TikTok-like feed called Spotlight, kick-started by paying creators
Social media companies all starting to look the same
Instagram cautiously considers paying publishers
How social media made us isolated, scared, and tribal
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Citizens are turning face recognition on unidentified police
‘The cameras are always on’: Student surveillance and privacy protection in the age of e-learning
Citizens are turning face recognition on unidentified police
***LITERATURE
Unseen JRR Tolkien essays on Middle-earth coming in 2021
***POETRY
China Disappeared my professor. It can’t silence his poetry
Happy 100th anniversary to the poem that every writer needs to know
Kwame Alexander Offers New Poems On Race And Hope As 'Psalms And Balms' For The Soul
We are going to have a president who quotes poetry