On The Listening Post this week: Facebook - social media platform or news gatekeeper? Plus, how one journalist is handling the challenges of reporting on the drone war in northwest Pakistan.
Decoding your Facebook
The world's largest social media network is also one of the biggest news platforms - so allegations of a bias towards liberal news issues
Many journalists and writers have been tracking the Facebook story and its implications.
For this report, we have spoken to: Zeynep Tufekci, assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina; Callum Borchers, media and
On our radar
In Kazakhstan, 44 journalists were amongst hundreds arrested by security forces during nationwide anti-government protests.
The legal case pitting a one-time time wrestler Hulk Hogan against Gawker Media. Was it funded by a Silicon Valley billionaire with a grudge?
French satirical TV show Le Petit Journal exposes how a Russian state TV report about labor protests in Paris was manipulated, how viewers were misled and how the EU angle was fabricated.
Mission impossible: Reporting Pakistan's northwest
Remote, difficult to navigate, the target or American drone strikes since 2004 and the site of the Pakistani army's Operation Zarb-e-
Talking us through this story are: Shahzad Akbar, director
INC News, 28/05/2016 - source: ©AlJazeera
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