Copyright 2008-2023, Legal Insurrection, All Rights Reserved. This summers Christopher Pratt/zookeeper meme inspired by Jurassic World and the #ILookLikeAnEngineer hashtag are just two examples of stories that came out of our close observation of and participation in social media. And now theyve found a willing accomplice eager to preserve his dinner reservations. Join the 60,000 who get the freshest future-of-journalism news in our daily email. We did a story called Game of Drones that just has gone crazy on Twitter. We can roll out a million product tools to help us deal with bad actors, but what we actually need to do is build a community that doesnt allow bad actors to flourish in the first place. Third, this site is a labor of love for everyone involved, especially for its founder, Thomas Lifson. Yes, Parler will be restored. But I do think commenting is a part of it. . "But without moderators or fancy algorithms," he added, comments sections "are prone to anarchy. Send LI fifty cents if you want to see the brainwashed zombie cgray451 spout leftist hate, spite, derision, and condescension! When we were making this decision last year, we looked a lot at the data. Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief, and Helen Havlak, engagement editor: We didnt get rid of them, and that makes us a little different from everybody else you might be talking to. This is a watershed event. The News24 leadership was questioning their comments policy as it was. People should be free to post comments and to engage in debates and free-wheeling banter, short of threats to violence and incitement. The site also didn't allow commenting on articles dealing with particularly controversial issues. To have the comments abruptly turned off was the equivalent of our breaking up your party, the great party at which all the guests were interesting and delightful. This meant that a lot of people were theorizing in advance of their data. We dont do much question-asking, but we do pay quite a bit of attention to the share text around every story that we publish. Publishers mostly were disgusted with the vulgar tone of comments, which they didnt have the time to moderate, so it was easier just to shut it down. Our editors engage with readers on social media on a regular basis, particular Facebook and Instagram, the latter of which weve recently been using to ask for input on our content and for submissions as part of science imageryfocused contests. The end result is no one can have or even wants to have a reasonable discussion. I expect to see comments restored once Mr. Lifson has resolved the moderation issue. Removed the comment section but yet left Parler buttons that leads to nowhere at both the top and bottom of the articles as if Parler is ever going to be allowed back on the internet. Do all these new party members have to agree the Barr is the real problem, the root of all that is wrong in this historical moment? We use social media and email newsletters, and well soon be introducing more live events to get readers and audience members involved in sci-tech topics of interest to them and us. I like to go to the source documents when doing my research. We try other things. All of us who work here agree that the choice was binary: shut down the comments or shut down the site.. At first, everyone was like how dare you, and then a lot of people did it. There wasnt much feedback [on our decision to remove comments], other than from media people on Twitter expressing their joy about the changes. We have discussion for every article we post on Facebook, everything we post on Tumblr, everything that we tweet, really across any social channel that isnt the article page itself. But we also had 12 million unique visitors that month. Why news websites are closing their comments sections | by Clothilde Goujard | Global Editors Network | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. Too often they devolve into racist, misogynistic maelstroms where the loudest, most offensive, and stupidest opinions get pushed to the top and the more reasoned responses drowned out in the noise.. Like countless other news outlets, NPR found itself overwhelmed by trolls, anonymous contributors who had too often hijacked comment threads with offensive and inappropriate submissions. on work the Times has done in partnership with the Washington Post and Knight Foundation in an initiative called the. Givent whats reported here, and especially in the case of colleges and universities, were on the path. They surely dont have the money to move lock, stock, and barrel to some country like India or Russia. Its easy to see why theres always pressure to regulate speech. However, Arlene Burgos, head of social media at the integrated news division at ABS-CBN, a major Philippine media, is not so enthused about the quality of conversations on Facebook. Questions, concerns, or general feedback for our online commenting platform. I look forward to your citation of US law that would prevent that. AT has lost a great deal of interest of mine. I spoke to seven news organizations Recode, The Verge, Reuters, Mic, Popular Science, The Week, and USA Todays FTW about their decision to suspend comments, the results of that change, and how they manage reader engagement now. Many speculations started running around after Yahoo suspended comments on its site. (5/18/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 03/23/2022) If you dont provide a clear, concise reason behind making that type of decision of course you will have people make assumptions. The trend started in 2013 when Popular Science became one of the first major publications to ditch its public comment section, citing scientific studies that found that blog comments can have a profound effect on readers' perceptions of science. Siloed into hardened camps, American discourse will end and foster a build up of pressures that will ultimately erupt. I've sent in two requests for them for additional information with no response. We are also very, very proud of what we built on Tumblr. Specific House Rules: "What happened after 7 news sites got rid of reader comments." 5/13/22 at 1:16 pm EDT by Spartan Yet another major national news site has killed comments altogether as ABC News joins The Hill in murdering its Disqus community. they used it. Now they are losing business on a grand scale, their actions were, to put it mildly, stupid. The vile Dhimmi-crats are taking that right away from us. Even though users had to comment through their Facebook profiles, it would not discourage them from posting hateful comments and some would slip through the careful monitoring of journalists. 26 May. Here are five companies that will help. Same with American Spectator. FWIW. The silver lining in all of this is that conservative web sites and blogs are now incentivized to work toward developing alternative web resource to counter those controlled by the left. Those on the right must realize that this is a fight to the end for freedom of speech. This isnt surprising based upon my few dealings with Lifson over the years. But, at the time, it had already chosen to invest in a newsroom of digital-first journalists, according to Andrew Trench, former editor in chief at News24. x | last = Ellis I never saw that in my time there. I left when blocking such persons made some of the comment sections nearly unintelligible. Thats why they cant give the reason, the reason would drop them instantly if AT identified them. Women in computing has fallen noticeably. NPR is the latest to announce the shutdown of its own story-page section. We hired Jamillah Knowles to be deputy social editor out of London, to keep us starting a conversation earlier around stories and to give us a truly global feel. There were several journalists in charge of moderation but the budget was still limited. After all the blatant ass-covering the Nazi technocrats manage to wring out of Section 230, why isnt it protecting small patriot websites who DONT bias their own common carrier content? Thats precisely what it was designed to do when it was written! Ellis, Justin. ABS-CBNs account numbers 11.7 million followers, one tenth of the Philippines population. Its a project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. If I was painting a picture of a site we were gonna have, and then at the end I said, Oh, by the way, at the bottom of all our articles were going to prominently let any pseudonymous avatar do and say whatever they want with no moderation if there was no convention of Internet commenting, if it wasnt this thing that was accepted, you would think that was a crazy idea, said Ben Frumin, editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. Some senior reporters as well as three younger journalists monitored the comments and interacted with readers. Gheyre pursuing legal avenues now, from what I understand. They joined the ranks of other outlets, including The Chicago Sun-Times and Popular Science, that abandoned the practice in favor of letting users discuss stories on social channels instead. One other thing I thought of is its not just a libel case Dominion could lose, if found it is a fraud its a criminal justice matter if you could find a DA to go after them, more likely a state as Slo Joes DoJ will be worse than Obamas was in protecting Democrats friends. [Social media] in its best form leads to really rich conversations. That sounds like a lot. Target's decision, Newsom added, is emblematic of "a systematic attack on the gay community happening across the country," which he warned does not stop at Pride merchandise. Some say that the feature was stopped because many people on the site used words that might disregard certain communities, feelings, and more. Cognitive dissonance is your thing. I thought At ought to have action about this sooner. Forum traffic has jumped about 36 percent. Could have spent a little more time discussing Lifsons groveling apology to Dominion for AT lying its collective ass off for the last two months about the stolen election.? Thanks, Tom. I just dont think thats gonna work. We didnt have the time and didnt see the benefit of continuing with the comments. I think that public engagement needs to be a key part of a public media organization," saidNPR ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen. In 2017, the Times site shifted gears and implemented a newsystem called Moderator,a machine-learning technology developed by Google. Im a big supporter of the 1st amendment, but I am against the freedom to defame and slander people, or to aid and abet them, especially when it is driven by political animus and a desire to silence dissent and control the debate. Whats the best way to follow how the news is changing? Many of our readers already use social media to read and share science news, so moving more of our engagement to where they are now just makes perfect sense. Get the latest on media innovation Subscribe to our weekly newsletter or follow GEN on Twitter and Facebook. Reset or restart your cable box to reestablish a connection if Fox News or other channels aren't working, or use the channel tuning settings once more to check for and add any possibly deleted channels. Follow. I suspect Am.Th.s reasoning for discontinuing the comments is spin. news and opinion articles, but open only for one day after publication. To make moderation easier and more efficient for journalists, the media had an automatic filter in place. Transcripts of our conversations, below, are edited slightly for clarity and length. So, she hasnt spent the last two months repeatedly lying about Dominion stealing the election from Trump? Read ATs back down of Dominion, as a fellow commentator at AoSHq pointed out if 1 of those just under 60 courts would have heard a case Dominion might not be feeling so high and mighty. No matter why the decision was made it is still going to cost them a lot of readers like me. When you start to look at it that way, even if every comment was created by an individual commenter which is not the way it works; surely several of those commenters commented hundreds of times 68,000 commenters would still be dramatically less than one percent of our total readership. [These people] could hijack the public discourse and could begin setting the tone of the discourse and I think its dangerous if it goes that way, she says. So in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when media outlets began publishing their content on the internet, many editors and reporters were cautiously optimistic that providing a space for online commenting would solicit more diverse audience engagement and create stronger connections between content creators and consumers. Stay up to date on U.S. and world news or catch up on the latest in politics, weather, health, business and more from America's #1 news organization. Plus, our site is oriented toward social, which is where our users are commenting, with their friends in those environments. India and the former Eastern Bloc countries would be good places to start. Commenting is now available on many morenews and opinion articles, but open only for one day after publication. So nope, no sympathy for Parler at this point. A website, ads, social media? And, at least in the case of computers, that larger screen is just ducky-swell dandy for things like photo editing; dummying up a parody logo like i just did for the front plate on my new car; videography; MuseScore. A Northern Colorado double homicide case will be the subject of an upcoming "20/20" episode, according to ABC. To be an expert at anything in sci or tech means rolling up your sleeves and getting to work. #pslovesneil (Thank you @fscottschafer @catchlight), A video posted by Popular Science (@popsci) on Aug 19, 2015 at 7:55am PDT. I write this without hyperbole. There are many, many tweets from people who feel as though they're being censored and that Yahoo has made a huge mistake in getting rid of its comment section. This idea is to encourage thoughtful commentary and substantive contributions, they wrote. Please use the links below to direct your e-mail to the various ABC News broadcasts and to ABCNews.com on the Web. That comes down to, again, the relationship between the people who work at The Verge and the audience who reads it and cares about it. All of us who work here agree that the choice was binary: shut down the comments or shut down the site. Carl Franzen, online director for Popular Science: Online, which is where I primarily work, weve also seen a number of trends spring up on social media, which weve then reported on as stories for PopSci. Social media are increasingly becoming the preferred places to foster conversations for many media. If you imagine that he would ever authorize such a difficult decision when there were other choices to be made, well, you dont know Thomas. Yes, there is a lot of garbage in the comments section, but that is the point, after all. Well be trying out Snapchat and various things, but its largely Facebook and Twitter. Last Night at School Committee distills hours-long public meetings into half-hour podcast episodes, How Seens mobile journalism reaches 7 million people across platforms, Seeing stories of kindness may counteract the negative effects of consuming bad news, How one journalist uses Instagram to pull back the curtain on her reporting process, An incomplete list of things that rank above news startup The Messenger in a Google search for The Messenger. And I think Jessica Lessin is doing a nice job on The Information, because she has subscribers. While some media still believe in the need for below-the-line comments, many newsrooms are becoming dissatisfied with the resource intensive work it requires to get only disappointing engagement. ABC News is your daily source for breaking national and world news, exclusive interviews and 24/7 live streaming coverage that will help you stay up to date on the events shaping our world. The FBI has misused a powerful digital surveillance tool more than 278,000 times, including against crime victims, Jan. 6 riot suspects, people arrested at protests after the police killing of . Havent read AS in a long time, but if I know that there have been a couple of the usual trolls here lying about Dominions role in stealing the election for about 2 months, and nobody seems to be trying to run them off of the internet. But its just one community out of 12 different communities we maintain. | url = https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/what-happened-after-7-news-sites-got-rid-of-reader-comments/ I do think that banding together for Internet service is the best approach. Newsbusters also disabled their comment section this past year with no explanation I could find and over the past few days Breitbart puts every comment into moderation until approved.I believe Big Tech is flexing its muscles and trying to silence speech it disapproves of step by step. I think the way [engagement] was being done, the game had passed it by. Parler should be able to return to business as usual by going to an offshore server. AWS acted under their standard contract clause that permits service discontinuation when essential third-party sources Apple and Google in this case ceased doing business with Parler for failure to moderate its site. Comments sections are really just a continuation of that age-old tradition of letters to the editor, a cherished part of many publications and a valuable way of creating an open dialogue between magazines and the people to whom they are ultimately accountable, wrote Jonathan Smith of Vice Newsin announcing his publication's move in late 2016. , wait, no, just you. We immediately received a couple of hundred very unhappy, angry, and sometimes insulting emails about that decision. My biggest problem with social-media is how it gives a high-tech bull-horn to anonymous folks who can literally slander, libel, and defame you to the point of destroying your reputation, your career, your life as you know it. Without readers comments, all sites will gravitate towards a closed loop of internal thought. And, when this happens, whether a site be on the Right or the Left, it will be deficient. One comment per thread, with no replies, would solve much the matter. Although it introduces friction to the process, I think its helpful friction because it produces a thoughtfulness that I think sometimes is lost with the immediacy of social media, says Franzen. We felt that, since so much of the. They dont have access to any data or databases. All feedback must be submitted through the link above. We want to have a big community, a vibrant community, and find ways to grow and nurture that community over time. Otherwise the comments would be full of porn links, etc. I dont read AT all that much, Chuckles. The suspect allegedly stabbed a man with a screwdriver and then randomly assaulted several others in Long Beach . Moderators would choose the words for the filter to watch out for and ban. Read our article why many media still believe in the comment section: Media mentioned in this article: NPR, Radio New Zealand, News 24, Dagbladet, ABS-CBN, Vox, Quartz, Pop-Sci. That could be through headlines, featured images, native video on Facebook, Vines whatever accurately presents the story while increasing engagement. First, 90% of the assumptions in the emails were wrong. We hope the adventure is exciting, fun, helpful and informative.". In the redux, if you bought it on Amazon, you probably paid less than retail but your probably paid too much. However, it did not always work. Lets acknowledge what this plainly is totalitarian and one-sided censoring of conservative voices and debate. They helped to make the site what it was. Too many people would scroll to the comments and see the commenters agenda didn't align with the agenda of the article. You keep saying this, Fine, about starting a new party, etc., but its not at all clear what you mean. Are we to believe that the only people running server farms are fascists? The county Antrim case will be the case in point I suspect. Free clue: There isnt. Using The Lowdown and Above the Noise in the Classroom link in our bio!And stay tuned for more behind the scenes videos with Dr. Tyson. Right whether one participates in forums, or not, its really the principle that must be defended. We were worried about legal liability and reputational issues if we continued with our existing comments policy, says Andrew Trench. Was this article helpful? We love it, were thrilled. Until they have the security of being able to publish anything they wish, they are at risk of being shut down completely. Because AT lacks the ability to monitor comments in real time, and because our position that comments are a forum, not something we publish, is being called into question, we can no longer publish comments. If warranted then delete the post. Step right up!, Chuckles is a true conservative, Fuzzy. The system rates and prioritizes user comments, assigning them values based on an analysis of more than 16 million previously approved comments going back a decade. Outside of the heavily curated New York Times and Washington Post, both of which use their own native comment CMS, along with Yahoo and Fox News with that OpenWeb piece of shit, no big name in news allows for comments anymore. Glad @Recode & others are challenging the trend: http://t.co/HVi23wOq4w pic.twitter.com/wLHKObAeDp, Melinda Gates (@melindagates) August 19, 2015. On January 14, American Thinker founder Thomas Lifson posted a blog post about the comment section: It is news to almost nobody who reads American Thinker that a political witch hunt is underway. What would be the point of commenting, then? PopSci is lucky in that our community of readers and followers is very curious, positive, and interested in learning more about all sorts of subjects. Like your scren name, I helped launched mini in 1991. Do they have to agree that the uniparty is real and that only a few (so far unnamed) Republicans are worthy? There is quite a lot of expert reporting on that. andIP Policy, American Thinker disables its comment section. I like him, though. I dont blaim a website having to back down from a multi million dollar company. Weve been turning those on and letting people follow a lot of our specific writers. Instead, you can react to the articles. WordPress? Were thinking of expanding that to news and other issues. Watch Dr. @neildegrassetyson illustrate this concept for our new #HowToBeAnExpert guide by smashing a banana frozen with liquid nitrogen! We appreciate what an unpleasant shock and disappointment that was, and we hate to be the mean parent who broke up the party, but, again, sometimes you have to do what you have to do. Our hopes are high. And thats [also] what a forum post does: it keeps things on topic, it keeps things positive, and its less [just] reaction to a story. x, It's not just the ABC, look at the Facebook or Youtube comments for videos from 7/9/10 and you'll see a whole lot worse. Both the Parler filing and AWS response were also intriguing. And just like The Federalist, I will not visit them until they put the comment section back. To remove a Saved article in the ABC NEWS app:. Eight years and millions of toxic exchanges later, NPR announced the abrupt end of the experiment. You will die a sudden death!) AWS also stated in its response that the two entities had several calls about these postings: During one of the calls, Parlers CEO reported that Parler had a backlog of 26,000 reports of content that violated its community standards and remained on its service. AWS wasnt concerned about a couple of rash postings, there were apparently tens of thousands of these. According to her, Facebook offers a huge space but is not always a place for intelligent discourse. That will ultimately lead to our success, particularly in a world where, I think, everyone is super worried about off-platform publishing. holding comments back for perhaps two or more days At first, there was no moderation for their comments. Weve seen engagement skyrocket. And a number of outlets have even attempted to grow their comment sections, instituting various techniques to encourage civil debate and ward off the ever-present army of trolls at the gates. Sometimes? 9 mo They went away last month with no notice seen from ABC. Social media such as Facebook or Twitter make for higher quality conversations than story-page comments because of the barrier readers have to make an extra effort to go to another website. Maybe? The Hill and ABC News are still listed at the bottom of the Disqus.com home page. More than anything, the takedown of Parler for threats on the platform that were no worse than what is common on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere, has sent a chill through the non-liberal internet. She doesnt consider it is a place where individuals can come to discuss societal issues to influence political action like Jurgen Habermas public sphere. We got a lot of trouble in our comments on different stories attacks on our writers, just stupid things; it wasnt smart. Cuz, you know, when you get 25 years older, your eyesight gets 25 times better. It isnt just AWS that can terminate a website. ", NPR found that only a very small and wholly unrepresentative slice of NPR's audience was taking advantage of the comments section, Jensen explained, noting the sharp increase in inappropriate content. Dylan Voller wants to sue several media outlets over comments about him that were published on Facebook. Sydney Powell is feeling it as well but she has a better chance of fending the attack off. We use input from readers online (in the form of traffic analytics and emails) and in print (we still get a lot of handwritten letters) to gauge interest in our stories after publication. Identifying those who are above is no difficult. They have examined it by using various commenting practices. And a lot more will do it over time. The other thing weve done we havent done it in hard news yet, but weve done it in personal finance here in the States is Twitter chats with readers and our wealth team. I would posit that they are not. It was a balancing act, and a learning experience. Which isnt abandoning the field. ABC News was mocked by prominent GOP office holders for a report that said a "peaceful demonstration intensified" after police were attacked and a courthouse set on fire in Oakland, Calif. Dont just ban folks, send them an email and engage with them to figure out what they actually meant to express. And a lot of people followed in our footsteps, which is fascinating. 0:44. More answers below Marilyn Loftin 9 mo Sponsored by The Penny Hoarder What companies will send people money when they're asked nicely? Last modified September 16, 2015. This follow up post by Deputy Editor Andrea Widburg presented it as a life-or-death issue for ATs existence: Yesterday, we announced that we are closing comments at American Thinker. We do a podcast now, which is really helpful. Either fight or go away. When comments are deleted, it's usually because they violate one or more of our house rules. Web. Both in terms of experts for Powell and rebuttals of those reports. Most often, theres a sense of abandoning the idea of a community interacting on the website. Megan Whelan, of RNZ, thinks theres value in having comments below a story and growing a community. NPR has since put greater energy into building robust social media forums to pick up the slack, which Jensen said generally seem to attract a more representative population of the NPR audience and encourage civil debate. He explains: You have to give priority to something. Its thankless, tedious and time-consuming. We must use our ingenuity and wealth to acquire and stand up server farms and internet access free from censorship by corrupt corporate-government alliances. 2023. This [the website] is the place to read and share. 100% fed up and several others are under attack by way to take a knee. Heres how theyre all using social media to encourage reader discussion. | first = Justin So they prevent you and I from offering any opinion at all. It was some time before AT adopted their current format. We do [discussion] online, on social networks, on Facebook, on Twitter especially. Thats a much harder solution than were gonna build in down-rank buttons and shadow bans. Latest: Debt limit deal Danny Masterson verdict Pence presidential bid Swan babies rescued hMPV surge Danny Masterson found guilty on 2 counts of rape Charges dismissed against company in fatal fire Neighbor, passerby help save family in house fire Amazon workers to walk out after return to office Couple shot dead by landlord in tenant dispute We felt that that was. It was as if it became the conventional wisdom that right-wing commentary on websites was a responsible factor in Trumps win and Hillarys loss. Can I stream my iOS device to my Apple TV using AirPlay? For a number of reasons including financial, staff and time constraints, popular platforms like Facebook are being chosen for their ease of moderation and opportunity to reach wider and more diverse audiences. Secondly, the income would pay for moderators. They are unable to monitor and moderate comments in real time and thereby render themselves liable for serios and expensive legal action from the denizens of the Left. The big difference between letters to the editor and online commenting, of course, is the moderation and selectivity factor. They made the deal, and now they are suffering the conequences. The left bands together to fight the right while the right scatters like roaches when the lights come on rather than show strength through unity. Fox News has removed digitally altered photos from its website after a Seattle newspaper noted misleading images used in the network's coverage about a section of the city that has become a centre . We dont just leave it alone from there; the programming team then moderates that conversation. Price competition no longer exists, even on eBay. On our site, weve seen engagement go up. We didnt feel as if there was a lot going on there, anyway; it hadnt become as fertile and diverse as our audience was. People arent flying into stories they happen to see in their feed and leaving a comment and jumping out and starting chaos. Only the Gateway Pundit was the prodigal son here, having switched from Disqus to lousy Insticator and back again. The net has been handy for many conveniences, particularly citizen journalism. Closing the below-the-line comment sections is not a light-hearted and easy decision to make. One of the things I liked about AT is the same thing I like about LI- The knowledge of the readers and the quality of their comments. I think you actually need to establish norms of behavior that people will follow because they care about the space. Were trying to reset the expectations of our community and rethink how we maintain whats strong about one set of people that are reading one kind of content as our site grows and as our ambitions grow for the site. Sad doesnt begin to cover it. Making AWS responsible for this Qanon-favored social network is poor reasoning. I come here for a lot of reasons the articles are great and they are aligned with my values and beliefs. The right doesnt scatter: the Republican party scatters. Something seems to be going on with Disqus. Your average d/progressive Karen would certainly find many things not to like our comments section. And more outlets are finding that their comments are falling far short of the goal of encouraging debate and civil discourse among a representative selection of users. Weve redesigned our whole site; there are a number of potentially confounding variables in the statistics. Politics-wise, it would seem with Gateway, Breitbart, OAN, and a long list of others using the big D, that our universe is increasingly dominated by right wing audiences with only Political Wire, JoeMyGod, RawStory (ugh), Mediaite, Wonkette, and of course National Zero holding it down on the center-left. By continuing to use this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy,Terms of Service. It is then a civilization continues on the path of decline. Thats hard. They do not like what readers actually think. 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