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Research

Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age
Lee Rainie and Janna Anderson, Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech, February 8, 2017

Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning 
Sam Wineburg, Sarah McGrew, Joel Breakstone, and Teresa Ortega. 2016. Stanford Digital Repository

On the Statistical Properties of Viral Misinformation in Online Social Media 
Alessandro Bessi, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Volume 469, Pages 459–470,  March 1, 2017.

Many Americans Believe Fake News Is Sowing Confusion
Michael Barthel, Amy Mitchell and Jesse Holcomb, Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media, December 15, 2016

Processing Political Misinformation: Comprehending the Trump Phenomenon
Briony Swire, Adam J. Berinsky, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Royal Society Open Science. March 1, 2017

When Fake News Becomes Real: Combined Exposure to Multiple News Sources and Political Attitudes of Inefficacy, Alienation, and Cynicism
Meital Balmas, Communication Research, Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 430-454, April 2014

Whistle-blowing and the Politics of Truth
Iain Munro, Human Relations, Volume 70, Issue 5, 2017

News Outlets

"Post-Post Truth"
Library Babel Fish, Inside Higher Ed, April 13, 2017

"In the Post-Truth Era, Colleges Must Share Their Knowledge"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2, 2017

"Google Tells Army of 'Quality Raters' to Flag Holocaust Denial"
The Guardian, March 15, 2017

"After Trump Was Elected, Librarians Had to Rethink Their System for Fact-Checking"
The Huffington Post, March 9, 2017

"Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors"
Snopes.com, March 6, 2017

"How to Escape Your Political Bubble for a Clearer View
The New York Times, March 3, 2017

"Lies, Propaganda and Fake News: A Challenge for Our Age"
BBC News, March 1, 2017

"International Fact-Checking Gains Ground, Duke Census Finds"
from Duke Reporters' Lab

"This is How Your Hyperpartisan News Gets Made
Buzzfeed, February 27, 2017

"How to Tell Real News from Fake News"
TED-Ed Blog, January 17, 2017

"To Fix Fake News, Look to Yellow Journalism"
JSTOR Daily, November 29, 2016

"Most Students Don't Know When News is Fake, Stanford Study Finds"
The Wall Street Journal, November 22, 2016