Happy to report that David Rand and I have been chosen as the “researchers of the year” for 2017 by Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network: see link
MOST RECENT COVERAGE (2017-2018)
| The Atlantic: Is There Any Hope for Facebook’s Fact-Checking Efforts? |
| The Atlantic: What Facebook and Google Can Learn From the First Major News Hoax |
| The Atlantic: Why It’s Okay to Call It ‘Fake News’ |
| Bloomberg: Trump’s ‘Dangerous Disability’? It’s the Dunning-Kruger Effect |
| Bloomberg: Think You’re Smart About Politics? You Might Be Libertarian |
| Boston Herald: MIT scientist charts fake news reach |
| Buzzfeed: Dear France: You Just Got Hacked. Don’t Make The Same Mistakes We Did |
| Buzzfeed: Facebook Says Its Fake News Label Helps Reduce The Spread Of A Fake Story By 80% |
| CBC: ‘It’s more about laziness’: U of R Prof talks fake news and why some fall for it |
| Irish Times: Why producing bulls**t requires few convictions |
| LA Times: Google and Facebook aren’t fighting fake news with the right weapons |
| The Guardian: The Nobel peace prize is a who’s who of hawks, hypocrites and war criminals |
| New Scientist: Lazy thinking – not bias – is the real reason we believe fake news |
| New Statesman: Fish food and fascism: What two viral stories in one morning tell us about fake news |
| Newsy: Expert Says Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ Perpetuate Misinformation |
| New York Magazine: A Beginner’s Guide to Calling BS |
| The New York Times: Why the Fact-Checking at Facebook Needs to Be Checked |
| Nieman Lab: You see it, you buy it: Just being exposed to fake news makes you more likely to believe it |
| Nieman Lab: When it comes to the academic study of fake news, “bullshit receptivity” is a thing |
| Nieman Lab: Adding a “disputed” label to fake news seems to work, a little. But for some groups, it actually backfires |
| Nieman Lab: Crowdsourcing trusted news sources can work — but not the way Facebook says it’ll do it |
| Nieman Lab: Facebook might downrank the most vile conspiracy theories. But it won’t take them down. |
| NPR: The Psychology Of Fake News |
| The Outline: The problem isn’t whether people can identify fake news |
| Pacific Standard: The Least Analytical 2016 Voters: Democrats Who Supported Trump |
| PNAS News Feature: The genuine problem of fake news |
| Politico: Tagging fake news on Facebook doesn’t work, study says |
| Politico: GOP voters trust CNN, NY Times over Breitbart, InfoWars |
| Quartz: We asked Deepak Chopra, the guru of sayings that mean nothing, to fact-check his own tweets |
| Salon: Fake news: Much more than Facebook scams and Russian trolls |
| The Smithsonian Magazine: Study Looks at Why We All Spew So Much BS |
| Skeptic Magazine: A Note from Michael Shermer, Editor, Skeptic Magazine, on Why We Published “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct” Hoax Exposé |
| Slate: A Surprising New Study Says Facebook’s Ridiculed Plan to Rate the Media Could Actually Work |
| Slate: A Surprising New Study Says Facebook’s Ridiculed Plan to Rate the Media Could Actually Work |
| ThinkProgress: Facebook’s war against fake news isn’t working |
| Time: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Believing Fake News |
| Vox: Why Megyn Kelly may help spread Alex Jones’s lies even if she calls them bullshit |
| Vox: The science behind why fake news is so hard to wipe out |
| Vox: What constant smartphone photography is doing to our memories |
| Wall Street Journal: Fine-Tune Your B.S. Detector: You’ll Need It |
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