Tag: Fake news
Techniques of 19th-century fake news reporter teach us why we fall...
Petra S. McGillen, Dartmouth College
Donald Trump appears to have a straightforward definition of fake news: Stories that are critical of him or...
Seeking truth among ‘alternative facts’
Peter Neal Peregrine, Lawrence University
Part of what I do as an archaeologist is judge between competing claims to truth. Indeed, you could say this...
Is Google’s eagerness to answer questions promoting more falsehood online?
Thomas Maher, University of Arizona
When people have questions, they often ask Google. They expect high-quality, accurate answers. Late last year, it emerged that the...
The challenge facing libraries in an era of fake news
Donald A. Barclay, University of California, Merced
Imagine, for a moment, the technology of 2017 had existed on Jan. 11, 1964 – the day Luther...
How can we learn to reject fake news in the digital...
Thomas P. Mackey, SUNY Empire State College and Trudi Jacobson, University at Albany, State University of New York
The circulation of fake news through social...
hree ways Facebook could reduce fake news without resorting to censorship
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse University
The public gets a lot of its news and information from Facebook. Some of it is fake. That presents a problem...
Experts’ roundtable: The future of journalism in Trump’s America
Gerry Lanosga, Indiana University, Bloomington ; Damian Radcliffe, University of Oregon; Frank Waddell, University of Florida; Glenn Scott, Elon University, and Jennifer Glover Konfrst,...
EXPLORING NATURE
‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun...
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan and Ward B. (Chip) Manchester, University of Michigan
Weather forecasting is a powerful tool....
