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Focus Tag: News and Public Information
These Students Are Learning About Fake News and How to Spot It | The New York Times
by Alina Tugend
3 days ago
The students sit at desks in groups of four, watching videos about the recent bush fires in Australia. One shows…
Faux news articles and social media posts will haunt this election | Slate
by Chris Estep and Megan Lamberth
3 days ago
Last September, an image of a New York Times headline began circulating online, claiming that Abdullah Abdullah, a candidate for…
Defeating Disinformation Threats | Foreign Policy Research Institute
by Matthew Thomas
3 days ago
Russia, to a smaller or larger extent, has deliberately challenged the Baltic states on both domestic and international levels since…
Forget Fake News: Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything | Daily Beast
by Bobby Duffy
4 days ago
People are often incredibly wrong about key social and political realities in their countries, as I explore in my book,…
Fox News Keeps Rudy Giuliani On-Air Despite Internal ‘Disinformation’ Docs | Daily Beast
by Justin Baragona
5 days ago
Even though internal Fox News documents caution that frequent guests Rudy Giuliani and John Solomon traffic in “disinformation,” the network…
‘Truth is not the goal.’ Facebook ‘news’ site admits to misleading 50,000 NC followers | Raleigh News & Observer
by Hayley Fowler
5 days ago
College students, Alec Baldwin or a Russian bot? A Facebook page called North Carolina Breaking News describes itself as “satire/parody”…
Conservative News Sites Track You Lots More Than Left-Leaning Ones | WIRED
by Andy Greenberg
February 11, 2020
In an age of hyper-partisanship, Americans increasingly get their news from sites that align with their political beliefs. But more…
How social network sites and other online intermediaries increase exposure to news | PNAS
by Michael Scharkow, Frank Mangold, Sebastian Stier, and Johannes Breuer
February 11, 2020
Research has prominently assumed that social media and web portals that aggregate news restrict the diversity of content that users…
Fox News guests spread ‘disinformation’ – says leaked internal memo | The Guardian
by Luke O'Neil
February 10, 2020
Fox News has a credibility problem. Most critics of the cable news network will be well aware of that, but…