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Before Donald Trump there was Fox News. Outfoxed shows how the Fox News channel has been used to promote and advocate right-wing views. Full documentary movie.
Media, Tech, and the Next Congress; Net Neutrality After the Midterms; NPR Hypes Amazon; Facebook on the Dock; Homemade Fake News; The Relevant One Hundred
Conservative Confusion; Social Media's Long March; They Got Algorithm; How to Hack an Election; The Macedonian Connection; Bye, Voice
A central pillar of President Trump’s politics is a sustained assault on the free press. Journalists are not classified as fellow Americans, but rather “the enemy of the people.” This relentless assault on the free press has dangerous consequences.
Tweets containing false information tend to be more novel and to elicit greater surprise and disgust than tweets with real news. That novelty and emotional charge seem to be what generates more retweets.
Kevin Young is a prolific and highly regarded poet, recently appointed the poetry editor of The New Yorker. He is the first African American to hold that post. His new book looks at such fakery as fake news.
John Oliver | The NRA. Cable Street: Anti-Fascist Story in Song. Betsy DeVos Faces Silent Protest at Harvard. An Algorithm That Could Help End Partisan Gerrymandering. How Russia Sent a Small Idaho Town Into a Fake News Tailspin.
Russian operatives have targeted Twin Falls, Idaho with a fake anti-immigration campaign launched on Facebook. NBC Left Field investigates.
National Public Radio's media critic Brooke Gladstone talks with the Poynter Institute about the myth of post-fact journalism and the need for journalists to ferret out and offer common pools of accurate information, if only to provide contending parties with a basis to negotiate and for democracy to work.
The trolls set out to distract and divide the invigorated left.
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