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A comment on Social Media Guidelines for the Times Newsroom.

Re:Social Media Guidelines for the Times Newsroom by weinzierl on Friday October 13, 2017 @01:42PM (#15467737)
> We consider all social media activity by our journalists to come under this policy. While you may think that your Facebook page, Twitter feed, Instagram, Snapchat or other social media accounts are private zones, separate from your role at The Times, in fact everything we post or "like" online is to some degree public.

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This is good advice for everyone.

In fact, I'm not sure if 'post or "like"' isn't even a too narrow definition. For example "stories clicked" is probably a much more interesting metric than "likes", and we can never be sure that this data doesn't become public.

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Re:Social Media Guidelines for the Times Newsroom by danso on Friday October 13, 2017 @03:45PM (#15468736)
A funny, recent example of how likes/follows can be tracked: A Baltimore Sun reporter who helped expose a fraudulent journalist was messaged by a Twitter user who purported to be one of the fraudulent journalist's sources. A look at who that Twitter user followed made the claim very unconvincing:

https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/839663972357926912

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Re:Social Media Guidelines for the Times Newsroom by Alex3917 on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:14PM (#15468030)
Even things in your newsfeed that you pause over for half a second without clicking on can be tracked and made public also.
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Re:Social Media Guidelines for the Times Newsroom by jdoliner on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:31PM (#15468159)
Things you never saw at all could be made public too. How would you prove them wrong? And would it even matter if you did? It seems like a fools errand to worry about this, even if you do everything right you can still get just as screwed.
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