↩︎ The New York Times
These crime dogs are the best of the best: they can sniff not only drugs but electronics like thumb drives, too.
↩︎ CNet
China calls for 'Cold War mentality' in Australia to end
China's
Ambassador to Australia has denied political interference in other
countries, and called for an end to the "Cold War mentality" in
Australia. Speaking at a ...
The
Leader’s Calendar
"Drawing on an in-depth 12-year study, this package examines the unique
time management challenges of CEOs and the best strategies for conquering
them." (Harvard
Business Review)
China does not interfere: ambassador
China does not infiltrate other countries or seek to interfere in their internal politics, China's ambassador to Australia says.
An incomplete list of evidence that Australia is becoming a police state
The
government is taking Australia down the road to a police state where
criticism or embarrassment of the government is punished. This is how.
Labor seeks to compel bureaucrats in DPC probe
"SA Opposition pushes for select committee to investigate claims Premier Steven Marshall raised questions with a senior public servant about the 'impartiality' of his cabinet office days before five staff members were shifted out." (InDaily)
“It is essential that justice be done; it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.” ―Oscar Arias
I discovered that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards. Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable of the vilest things, lethal things, at the mildest threat.
↩︎ Paris Review
Andrew (who escaped across the Cold War River) became known for his guiding motto: "Only the paranoid survive," and wrote a management book with the same title. According to Grove, "Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction," explaining that "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."
Andrew Grove
Swimming Across: A Memoir by Andrew S. Grove - Goodreads
Highly speculative claims about milk and liberty.
Happiness
at work doesn’t just depend on your employer
VIEWPOINT: There is a real difference between happiness gimmicks and
working in a wellbeing work culture.
An Eye for an Eye to Eye for whole body ...“Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime.” —Jo Nesbø
Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe
Robert Wadlow, the world’s tallest ever human
WHO’S MORE TRUSTED?: A Reuters Institute report says newspapers and broadcasters are more trusted than
digital-first outlets.
JOHN STAPLETON: Surveillance in Australia: Part Two: A Parallel Secret Police Force
This is a government run on announceables.
Even without the Budget blizzard, so far in 2018 we have had major announcements on everything from the so-called Gonski 2.0 education reforms, the establishment of an Australian arms industry to compete internationally, and an investigation into the practices of Public Service. Continue reading
Tracking Zika rumors
When
it comes to Zika, rumors could fare better than real news on social media —
making disease prevention efforts more difficult.
That’s
according to a study from Alexios and four other researchers, which looks at
the engagement of verified stories vs. popular rumors about the virus. Drawing
upon audience statistics from BuzzSumo, the authors found that hoaxes
regularly got more Facebook engagements than real news.
Read
the study in full here.
(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
This is how we do it
- Fact-checking a controversial social issue? Here are some tips from those who have done it before.
- Rosie the Accountability Robot and other technologies are part of the fight against fake news in Brazil’s elections.
- FactWatch launches at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
This is bad
- Fake news about health can be really bad for your health.
- Fake news that will not die: NBC News looks at a Pizzagate-type conspiracy theory in Arizona and how “fringe beliefs blossom in a polarized area.” And The Virginian-Pilot fact-checks an “urban legend” about slave ships.
- Bellingcat investigates USAReally.com, a new Russian troll factory.
(Photo
by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)This is fun
- Could an “Oceans 8” heist really happen? HuffPo fact-checks “the most glamorous con job in cinematic history.”
- These scientists help make sure that sci-fi has a healthy dose of science over fiction.
- The people need to know: CNN fact-checks the Canadian prime minister’s eyebrows.
A closer look
- How do people define “fake news” and why is that important? The American Press Institute asked that question in a major study released this week.
- Facebook clarified the purpose of its new “news credibility specialist” positions.
- Fake news can harm children and their self-esteem, according to a new parliamentary report — and kids with poor literacy skills are affected more.
(Screenshot)Coming up
- The Fifth Global Fact-Checking Summit starts next week in Rome. Here are some of the conference’s notable panels.
- The Global Press Institute in Washington, D.C., is holding an after-work fact-checking lesson on June 25. Participants will “conduct a live fact check of a GPJ story from Democratic Republic of Congo.”
If you read one more thing
Credibility
scores might not be the panacea some might hope for. Here’s
why.
10 quick fact-checking links
- French fact-checking projects in public media have teamed up to publish their work on a shared platform.
- Happy 2nd birthday to the Duke Reporters’ Lab’s Share the Facts!
- This currently unpublished study found that U.S. presidential candidates are less likely to repeat claims that were fact-checked as false.
- The Wall Street Journal published an opinion article that chastised fact-checking sites like Snopes.
- Using blockchain technology and user feedback, the “Trusted News” browser extension is designed to help readers spot fake news.
- The Lenfest Institute writes about Verificado 2018, a group fact-checking effort for the upcoming Mexican elections.
- Does this new television program accurately portray journalism? USA Today fact checks.
- To overcome your fear of public speaking, here’s Bustle’s tip: Fact check.
- UNESCO publishes a book, “Journalism, ‘Fake News’ and Misinformation.”
- The latest fact check from the American Bar Association: Is it accurate to say “The president is not above the law”?
via Daniel, Jane, and Alexios
NIH shuts down controversial $100M drinking study backed by Big Alcohol Ars Technica
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Ask Your Pharmacist About Paying for Your Prescriptions in Cash Lifehacker. More health care bezzle
Mother of epileptic 12-year-old demands Home Office be stripped of powers to regulate medicine after cannabis oil ‘ordeal’ Independent
NIH shuts down controversial $100M drinking study backed by Big Alcohol Ars Technica
'Gaming disorder' diagnosed as mental health condition
Many parents will have thought it for a long time, but they now have a new argument to limit their children's 'screen time'.