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#informationdissemination — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #informationdissemination, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Scientific Reports: How to detect information voids using longitudinal data from social media and web searches. “The model of the attention economy, where content producers compete for the attention of users, relies on two key forces: information supply and demand. This study leverages the feedback loop between these forces to develop a method for detecting and quantifying information voids, […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/13/scientific-reports-how-to-detect-information-voids-using-longitudinal-data-from-social-media-and-web-searches/
  2. CBC: Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism. “Nieta Aqila is among 14 overseas accounts CBC identified in four popular Alberta independence Facebook groups. The accounts have posted politically divisive content about Alberta separatism, Western annexation and other hot-button Canadian topics within the past two months.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/09/cbc-facebook-is-paying-people-overseas-promoting-alberta-separatism/
  3. PressGazette: Daily Beast gains on Reddit and Facebook as Google traffic falls . “Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling referral traffic from Google for the Daily Beast. The site’s chief content and creative officer Joanna Coles was interviewed in Cannes by Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker alongside Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/21/pressgazette-daily-beast-gains-on-reddit-and-facebook-as-google-traffic-falls/