Journalism professors detail crisis of media illiteracy
By Daniel Dassow, Staff Writer,www.utdailybeacon.com “The great thing about the internet is it’s unedited and the horrible thing about the …
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How Fiction Can Defeat Fake News
By Amitava Kumar, Source : Columbia Journalism Review Good, meaningful fiction does not confirm preexisting beliefs; its entire raison d’être …
How Facebook Fought Fake News About Facebook
By Mark Bergen and Kurt Wagner Source : Bloomberg Since 2016, Facebook employees have used Stormchaser to track many viral posts, including a …
Why humans are so susceptible to fake news and misinformation
By Julian Matthews, Source : Nieman Lab From a psychology perspective, an important step in tackling fake news is to …
How to detect deepfakes, dear journalist!
By FRANCESCO MARCONI AND TILL DALDRUP , Source : Nieman Lab Artificial intelligence is fueling the next phase of misinformation. The new …
India’s fight against fake news has a problem: More needs to be done on regional languages.
By VICTORIA MILKO, Source :The Splice Claims that your phone will explode if you accept calls from certain numbers, fake breaking news …
What the West calls fake news today is neither new nor always fake
By Swapan Dasgupta , Source : Sunday Times Of India In the 21st century, the idea of a negotiable truth has been …
Fake is Fit !
By Joshua Gillin, Source : politifact.com This is by no means a complete list of offenders. Nor does it necessarily mean every …
Want a “news-style soft article”? That’ll be $15. Or splurge and discredit a journalist for $55,000
By LAURA HAZARD OWEN , Source : niemanlab “新闻软文,” or “News-style soft article.” Want to discredit a journalist? That’ll be $55,000. 100,000 real …
What does fake news tell us about life in the digital age? Not what you might expect
By JONATHAN GRAY, LILIANA BOUNEGRU, AND TOMMASO VENTURINI , Source : nieman lab “By looking more closely at how fake news moves …
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