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I’ve had a ton of conversations on my personal Facebook feed recently where people are genuinely confused about which news outlet to trust. I — and many of my colleagues — have offered several fact-checking and news bias-rating sites, including…
Read more**This is part 5 of our series on “Election Stress Disorder”** A whole lot of people are turning-off and tuning-out. Some took the day off of work to head outside and stay far away from all things electronic. My 19-year…
Read moreIt’s being called the worst pandemic in modern history. I’m not talking about COVID-19 — thought it most certainly applies here too — I’m talking about the dangerous, disturbing and even deadly spread of misinformation online. You can’t go on…
Read moreby Christina X. Wood The term “fake news” has, lately, been tossed around like confetti by everyone from politicians to relatives to random people on Facebook to propagandists. The term is used so often and with such intent to deceive…
Read moreIt spreads like a bad flu. One person shares a shocking photo on Facebook, with a news-ish-enough looking headline and before you know it, people are talking about two-headed sharks. (The photo below? FAKE.) Intentionally misleading news stories, and even…
Read moreI’ve seen so much truly fake news (as opposed to actual, journalism-based news that certain people like now point to and call “fake news”) on lately. Even though we think we’re doing a better job getting the word out about…
Read moreOur story on recognizing fake news sites struck a huge nerve this week, and for good reason. There’s a lot of it going around – especially on social media sites like Facebook – where millions of people read and share it…
Read moreTowards the end of 2016 and well into this new year the big social networks like Facebook and Twitter have come under major scrutiny for failing to detect and police fake news stories. It’s a major problem, and completely unknown…
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