…lede to “Ghost Tags: Inside New York City’s Black Market for Temporary License Plates,” by Jesse Coburn In April 2023, online news outlet Streetsblog NYC published the first story in…
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…which are sprayed on dried, shredded plant material to make fake marijuana, commonly known as K2 and spice. While synthetic cannabinoids are similar to the chemicals found in the marijuana…
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…the fake handbook were published in 1903 by a Russian newspaper, “Znamya,”though its origins are unclear. Conspiracy theories and stereotypes about Jews can be found on extremist websites and in the…
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…could be useful in a news story. Bik noted during the webinar that PubPeer is “heavily moderated” to reduce the likelihood of name-calling and speculation about a researcher’s work. The…
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…— news consumption via Facebook dropped 9 percentage points nationwide and 20 points among younger groups. The report dedicates an entire section to “fake news” and takes a global look…
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…United States, to gauge who’s paying for news and who’s willing to pay in the future. The good news: Of those who are not paying for online news now, younger…
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…so-called fake news, as some people have believed. It was “pushing the extreme version of narratives we already created ourselves,” Linvill tells Journalist’s Resource. “They were trying to push both…
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…If Trump is patient zero, the news media are the superspreader. News outlets defend the reporting of newsmakers’ deceptive claims by saying that their statements are “newsworthy.” It’s an argument…
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…procedure or even brush off guidance from their doctor in response to something they read or heard in a news report, researchers write in “Defining and Detecting Fake News in…
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…D. Hoover, “Civility in News Discourse: The Case of PBS’ Brooks and Shields,” published in Electronic News, September 2014, Vol. 8, No. 3. Keywords: polarization, incivility, journalism, public discourse…
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