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  • These Hugely Popular Local News Sites In The US And Canada Are Fake | Buzzfeed News

    November 6, 2019

    Since 2004, more than 2,000 newspapers have closed in the United States, and many local news outlets are struggling to build a digital business. But one remarkable success story is […]

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  • Fake News: How To Spot Misinformation | NPR

    October 31, 2019

    Fake news has consequences. Back in 2016, before the term was even part of our national vocabulary, it threw the government of Twin Falls, Idaho, into chaos. Rumors of a […]

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  • Fake News and Real Tensions: The Impacts of Misinformation in South Asia | Center for Media Engagement

    October 31, 2019

    India and Pakistan are two nuclear powers locked in a decades-long border conflict with spurts of cross-national violence ranging from terrorist operations to full-blown war. In February 2019, a suicide […]

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  • Data Voids | Data & Society

    October 29, 2019

    Michael Golebiewski of Microsoft coined the term “data void” in May 2018 to describe search engine queries that turn up little to no results, especially when the query is rather […]

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  • Instagram Leans on Facebook to Root out Election Misinformation | Bloomberg

    October 25, 2019

      Instagram is relying on parent Facebook Inc.’s help to root out the people and organizations that will try to manipulate its users with misinformation in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. […]

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  • Information disorder: ‘The techniques we saw in 2016 have evolved’| First Draft News

    October 23, 2019

    The promise of the digital age encouraged us to believe that only positive changes would come when we lived in hyper-connected communities able to access any information we needed with […]

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  • Contexts of Misinformation

    October 22, 2019

    Terms such as “fake news,” misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, polarization, and networked harassment have rocketed to prominence in recent years. This literature review addresses some of the contexts of misinformation, beginning with political polarization and the twin concepts of ideological echo chambers and filter bubbles.

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  • A. Brad Schwartz

    October 16, 2019

    A. Brad Schwartz is a Doctoral Candidate in American History at Princeton University and the author of Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake […]

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  • Carole McGranahan

    October 16, 2019
  • Focus here, not there: These are the gaps in political misinformation research | Nieman Journalism Lab

    October 15, 2019

    In a paper to be published in an upcoming issue of American Behavioral Scientist, Brian Weeks, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, and Homero Gil de Zúñiga of […]

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