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Happy Sunday, hacks and hackers! If you're in Europe, you may have heard that the European investigative journalism symposium, also known as #Dataharvest, is taking place this weekend in Mechelen, Belgium.

Meanwhile, the Asian-American Journalists Association is holding their N3 Conference over in Hong Kong, also called New. Now. Next. If you can't be in either place, you can follow them on Twitter at #Dataharvest and #N3con.

The week ahead:

Worth a read:

  • If you surf European websites, you've almost certainly had to click a popup warning about cookies. A study by the Reuters Institute found that European news sites actually load more third-party cookies than other sites (NiemanLab)
  • So far this year, Facebook has disabled more than a billion (yes, a billion with a "b") fake accounts. The platform plans to share more data on their prevention efforts (Recode)
  • Al Jazeera experimented with Google's Vision API to run an analysis on the photos on their website, and their context. Trump's face showed "20 percent joy, 0.6 percent anger, 3 percent sorrow, and 2 percent surprise" (GIJN)

Job openings:

Location Employer Opening
Middle East ICFJ Knight fellow
South Africa Journalism and Media Lab Journalist
UK University of York Interactive media lecturer
US NYTimes Tech reporter
US Charleston Post and Courier Tech reporter
US ICFJ Program coordinator
US Quartz Designer
US CNN D3 designer

Upcoming events:

Month Day City Country Event
May 24-27 Mechelen Belgium Dataharvest European investigative journalism symposium
May 25-27 Hong Kong China New. Now. Next. Media Conference
May 29-30 Kiev Ukraine MisinfoCon Kyiv
May 30-1 Oakland US Code for America summit
June 4-5 New York US Ops conference on digital media revenue
June 13 Bonn Germany Global Media Forum
June 14-17 Orlando US Investigative Reporters and Editors conference
June 20-21 Cardiff UK European Data and Computational Journalism Conference
June 29-30 Hamburg Germany NDR Annual Conference - Alternative: Facts!

Project funding:

Deadline Fund
Rolling MisinfoCon micro-grants
Rolling Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund
Rolling Ukraine Media Development Fund
May TruthBuzz fellowship
May Open Media Hub videojournalism grants
July Open Society Fellowships
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