by Jessi Hollis McCarthy Let’s talk about “fake news.” You’ve likely heard the term before. It can be used to describe false content masquerading as actual reported news. It can also be used as a critique of information that we observe to have a problem or quality ...
News, or shall we say “news,” of a horrid attack spread faster than you can say “IDF”: Israel had bombed a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds. Without bothering to verify the claim, which had been initially propagated by Hamas, anti-Israel members of Congress shared it with ...
A Wisconsin Supreme Court judge recently made headlines for editing her own Wikipedia page to remove links to news articles she considered critical of her, instead replacing some of the page’s content and citation links with her own judicial decisions. On the off chance you are ...
In not-so-breaking news: The University of Cambridge reports that people who primarily get their news from social media are less likely to be able to distinguish real headlines from fake headlines. Which shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone, though some of the demographic breakdowns ...
by Yunkang Yang, Matthew Hindman and Trevor Davis How much misinformation is on Facebook? Several studies have found that the amount of misinformation on Facebook is low or that the problem has declined over time. This previous work, though, missed most of the ...
by Jim Warren Consider Hollywood’s evolving villains over the years: Nazis, Russians, South African white nationalists, Middle Eastern terrorists, South American drug lords, dinosaurs, aliens, Wall Street cutthroats and, now, Tim Robbins. It’s Robbins as creepy ...