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Arithmetic of compassion - More tragedy doesn’t always elicit more empathy; it can counterintuitively bring about apathy.
The magnitude of the death toll can cause some people to become less compassionate, says Paul Slovic, a psychologist at the University of Oregon, due to a phenomenon he calls “psychic numbing.”👇

Why our minds can't make sense of COVID-19's enormous death toll As we reach grim milestones—200,000 dead in the U.S. and one million globally—our new challenge is overcoming the natural tendency to go numb.

"There is nothing new about disinformation. Unlike ordinary lies and propaganda, which try to make you believe something, disinformation tries to make you disbelieve everything. It scatters so much bad information, and casts so many aspersions on so many sources of information, that people throw up their hands and say, "They're all a pack of liars," Jonathan Rauch argues👇

The Constitution of Knowledge America has faced many challenges to its political culture, but this is the first time we have seen a national-level epistemic assault: a systematic attack, emanating from the very highest reaches of power, on our collective ability to distinguish tr...

Horizon Media Charts Emoji Usage During The Pandemic, MediaPost reports👇

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/350087/horizon-media-charts-emoji-usage-during-the-pandem.html

Horizon Media is out with a new study on emoji usage during the pandemic that’s designed to get a better read on shifting emotional trends that words alone might not reveal.

The agency analyzed emoji usage in 28 million Tweets in the U.S. and segmented data by gender and by geography to see what patterns and differences would be revealed during the crisis compared to the pre-pandemic period.

The agency found a shift away from carefree chatter to a more somber mix of gratitude, love, and confusion, as well as some levity, as people process and cope with the new normal brought by the crisis.

The study compared the top 100 emojis used in a sample of general Twitter discussion in 2019 vs. now and found that germs and frustration are now top of mind. People are also now expressing a mix of typically more reflective emotions.

New emojis popping up in the top 100 include “Medical Mask,” “Microbe” and “Angry Face With Symbols.” The symbols suggest expletives to illustrate frustration over the current situation and the handling of it.

Emojis with the biggest increase in usage primarily show a more reflective tone:

“Pleading” (+93%) and Sad (+53%), used primarily by people lamenting over the sad news and what they’ve lost with COVID-19 (sports, foods, etc).

“Prayer Hands” (+50%), to express love, gratitude, and support in a time of crisis

“Woozy” (+33%), a drunk face symbolizing alcohol consumption as a coping mechanism

“Flushed “(+30%): Severity of COVID-19 and government actions are a wake-up call; confusion over how to adjust to our new life, embarrassment over people’s handling of the situation.

Emojis with the biggest decrease in usage largely reveal a shift away from the light-heartedness of carefree chatter:

“Side Eyes” (-50%)

“Fire” (-49%)

American Flag (-40%)

Happy Sunglasses (-21%)

Open-Mouthed Smile (-20%)

The following infographic includes more findings from the study👇

The Whatsap chatbot now has more than 12 million followers and is available in 7 languages, including Hindi and Portuguese, which are launching today. The Viber chatbot has more than 2 million followers, in three languages and four more to launch next week,” says Head of World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Tedros

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"We live in an ecosystem that overwhelms people with a lot of intentionally misleading information. So regardless of how clear a case Democrats make during the impeachment trial, a majority of voters will likely remain confused about the details of Trump’s transgressions," says Vox's in the “Flood the zone with s**t”: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy.

"Flood the zone with s**t": How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy The impeachment trial probably won’t change any minds. Here’s why.

New estimates show Disney spends more on content than Netflix, Axios reports 👉 https://www.axios.com/disney-netflix-content-spending-b7cc36a9-0d4a-495b-a191-01020e099a6e.html

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, winning the streaming war has never looked this bad.⠀
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● People have been talking about the streaming era for so long that it’s hard to imagine the tipping point just happened. In 2019 the rate of Americans quitting cable went from steady slide to avalanche. TV ratings continued to tumble. The three biggest U.S. entertainment titans made the jump into original streaming video, as did Apple.⠀
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A single person watching YouTube videos for eight hours a day with no breaks or days off would need more than 16 years to watch all the content posted by just the most popular channels on the platform during a single week, says Pew Research Center. These popular channels – defined as those with at least 250,000 subscribers – posted nearly a quarter-million videos in the first seven days of 2019, totaling 48,486 hours of content. The average video on these channels was roughly 12 minutes long and received 58,358 views during its first week on the site. Altogether, these videos were viewed over 14.2 billion times in their first seven days.

U.S. newspaper circulation has fallen to its lowest level since at least 1940, the earliest year with available data, says Pew Research Center. Total daily newspaper circulation – print and digital combined – was an estimated 28.6 million for weekday and 30.8 million for Sunday in 2018. Those numbers were down 8% and 9%, respectively, from the previous year and are now below their lowest recorded levels (though weekday circulation first passed this threshold in 2013).

The rise of the internet enabled the creation of digital ad channels that were much cheaper for the same effectiveness, thus lowering the deadweight loss of advertising on society, argues Michael Mandel in a July 2019 analysis report, "The Declining Price of Advertising: Policy Implications" 👉

The Declining Price of Advertising: Policy Implications - Progressive Policy Institute SUMMARY The global debate over the relationship between digital advertising and quality journalism has intensified in recent months, with Congressional hearings in the United States and the release of official reports on the subject in Australia and the United Kingdom. On the one hand, advertisers h...

Facebook's and Twitter's Divergent Ad Policies; Amazon US Ad Revenues to Approach $10 Billion; There's No Such Thing As Bad Press, eMarketer reports

Amazon will earn almost $10 billion in US net digital ad revenues this year, we estimate. That's an increase of more than 33% over 2018, according go ’s prediction.

This represents a downward revision from our previous forecast due to slower-than-expected growth in H1 2019. Earlier this year, estimated Amazon’s ad business would grow by 53% to $11.33 billion.