Fake News/Alternative Facts: Fake Mixed with Real

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• How Data And Information Literacy Could End Fake News

  By Kalev Leetaru, Dec. 11, 2016
  "Putting this all together, we see that fake news exists because as a society we have failed to teach our citizens data and information literacy."
• We Have a Bad News Problem, Not a Fake News Problem  
• Fake News: NPR

  Coverage from National Public Radio.
• How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study

  Article from The New York Times, Nov. 20, 2016
• Misinformation on Social Media Could Outfox Technical Solutions-For Now

  From Nova Next on PBS, Nov. 28, 2016
• Stop the Spread of Fake News

  Article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 15, 2016
• Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds

  From NPR, Nov. 23, 2016

• ABCNews: When Fake News Makes Real News Headline

  About a fake story which was treated as real news. Traces some of the pipeline for developing and distributing fake news
• NPR: We Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator

  About Jestin Coler, who began creating and distributing fake news in 2013.
• NPR: Students Have Dismaying Inability to Tell Fake News Apart

  Many students cannot tell fake news from real news.
• The Atlantic: The Food Babe, Enemy of Chemicals

  An examination of claims made by The Food Babe, with pointed analysis by professor Kevin Folta of the University of Florida
• New York Times: How Fake News Goes Viral

  From a single Tweeter with 35 friends to being shared over 400,000 times through various forums, this article traces a Tweet made November 9th, 2016.
• CNN: Fake News, Real Violence

  "Pizzagate" was a fake news story which connected a pizzeria with a child pornography ring allegedly run by Hillary Clinton and John Podesta. On Sunday, December 3, 2016, an armed shooter entered the pizzeria and fired a shot before being accosted by the police.
• NPR: How to Tell Real News from Fake News in 'Post-Truth' Era

  This article discusses "post-truth", the idea that all news outlets will fail you eventually and it's impossible to know who to trust. It provides some commonsense advice on what to look for in a news outlet.
• Global Challenges: Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change

  Covers a new theory about combating fake news known as "attitudinal inoculation" and follows two studies testing this method.
• TED: How to tell fake news from real news

  A brief selection of things to look for when determining the fakeness of news.
• The Atlantic: The Rise of Progressive "Fake News"

  This interview with Snopes editor Brooke Binkowski examines the emotional pull of fake news
• BBC.com: How do Fake News Sites Make Money?

  An investigation into how profitable fake news can be.