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Why We Fall for Fake News and How to Bust It

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In The Republic, Plato uses an extended metaphor involving prisoners who can see nothing but shadows projected on the cavern…

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A data-driven news outlet that gave Trump a 3-in-10 chance of winning the electoral college analyzes its own failure, and…

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In a new research paper that Poynter says will be published tomorrow by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Hunt Allcott…

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English is full of figures of speech popularized by Shakespeare. Some of those terms Shakespeare's interest in falconry. “Hold onto…

Topical Satire Is Not “Fake News.”

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While I've been preparing to teach a class on memes and "fake news," my complaints are all about propaganda that…

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I recently came across an abandoned stash of tiny doll shoes. When TeenGirl was little, she would take the tiny…