Influence of the Web Feeds on the news environment

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 Influence of the Web Feeds on the news environment



In the last few decades, the sources of information have been related to radio, television and newspapers. Today, the Internet is the most widespread source of information. Thanks to the common use of the Internet, almost all media have moved to the World Wide Web and an increase in access speed has only significantly increased this type of spread of information.





The decline in local news reporting has created an information vacuum, making it possible for misinformation and disinformation to flourish online. Although misinformation in media is not new, it spreads rapidly in today’s speech environments on social media. 


Social media platforms are designed to disseminate content through algorithms that can modify patterns of individual exposure in opaque ways, causing different people to see and hear different content.


Furthermore, users’ self-selection of content creates homogeneous, polarized clusters or echo chambers that can increase the diffusion of misinformation over social media. This problem is only heightened in an environment where local news sources are unavailable to counteract the misinformation spread on social media.



As local news sources have declined, people are getting their news and other information from the media. This raises a number of concerns, including the spread of misinformation and the use of platform infrastructure to engage in disinformation campaigns. Platforms also wield a significant advantage over local news sources in the current information environment. The dominant platforms possess proprietary, detailed caches of user data. This information can be used to force advertisers, users, and news outlets into asymmetrical relationships favourable to the platform. In the vacuum left by the disappearance of local news sources, users are increasingly reliant on information sources that are incomplete, and may in fact be misleading or deceptive.





Resources: https://premier.region35.ru/novostnue_saitu.dhtm https://citap.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/20665/2020/12/Decline-of-Legacy-Media-e1608584695704.png https://citap.unc.edu/local-news-platforms-mis-disinformation/#part-1

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