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Fake News:Evaluating Sources

This guide lists resources and describes strategies for evaluating the credibility of news media content.

News about Fake News

Duffy, John. 2017. "Post-Truth and First-Year Writing." Inside Higher Ed, May 8, https://www.insidehighered.com

Jack, Caroline. 2017. "What's Propaganda Got To Do With It?" Data & Society: Points (blog). January 5, https://points.datasociety.net/whats-propaganda-got-to-do-with-it-5b88d78c3282#.sqgchnwuh

Maheshwari, Sapna. 2016. "How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study." New York Times, November 20, http://nytimes.com

Ohlheiser, Abby. (2016. "How the War Against Fake News Backfired." Washington Post, December 7, http://washingtonpost.com.

Scott, Mark, and Melissa Eddy. (2017). "Europe Combats a New Foe of Political Stability: Fake News." New York Times, February 20, http://nytimes.com

Shane, Scott. 2017. "From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece." New York Times, January 18, http://nytimes.com.

Sundar, S. Shyam. 2016. "Why Do We Fall For Fake News?" The Conversation (blog). December 7, https://theconversation.com/why-do-we-fall-for-fake-news-69829.

Yates, Simeon. 2016. "'Fake News' -- Why People Believe It and What Can Be Done to Counter It." The Conversation (blog). December 13, https://theconversation.com/fake-news-why-people-believe-it-and-what-can-be-done-to-counter-it-70013

 

 

Additional Reports

Silverman, Craig. 2015. Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content: How News Websites Spread (and Debunk) Online Rumors, Unverified Claims and Misinformation. New York: Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University. http://towcenter.org/research/lies-damn-lies-and-viral-content/

Klurfeld, James, and Howard Schneider. 2014. News Literacy: Teaching the Internet Generation to Make Reliable Information Choices. Washington, DC: Center for Effective Public Management at Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Klurfeld-SchneiderNews-Literacyupdated-7814.pdf\

Mitchell, Amy, Jeffrey Gottfried, Michael Barthel, and Elisa Shearer. 2016. The Modern News Consumer: News Attitudes and Practices in the Digital Era. Pew Research Center. http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/07/08140120/PJ_2016.07.07_Modern-News-Consumer_FINAL.pdf

Tucker, Joshua A. et al. 2018. Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature. Hewlett Foundationhttps://www.hewlett.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Social-Media-Political-Polarization-and-Political-Disinformation-Literature-Review.pdf

 


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