As Fake News Spreads Lies, More Readers Shrug at the Truth
December 2016 article from The New York Times explores the problems of fake news are causing more readers to doubt everything, including real news.
Beware online "filter bubbles"
TedTalk from Eli Pariser which examines the effects of personalized searches and online "filter bubbles."
It took only 36 hours for these students to solve Facebook's fake-news problem
College students Anant Goel, Nabanita De, Qinglin Chen and Mark Craft created a Chrome extension to help combat the spread of fake news.
This Analysis Shows How Viral Fake Election News Stories Outperformed Real News On Facebook
A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined.
From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece
Cameron Harris created a fake story about an electrical worker who stumbled upon stacked boxes of ballots pre-marked for Hillary Clinton. This is how it happened.