Fake News, Misleading News, Biased News: Home

Aspen Institute (2021, November 15).  Commission on Information Disorder Final Report.. "America is in a crisis of trust and truth. Bad information has become as prevalent, persuasive, and persistent as good information, creating a chain reaction of harm."

Bilton, Ricardo (2017, February 2). Reddit’s /r/worldnews community used a series of nudges to push users to fact-check suspicious news [An approach to checking for fake news: A combination of fact-checking, rating news sources - using algorithms and users. Full report of this study]

Domonoske, C. (2016, November 23). Students have a dismaying inability to tell fake news from real, study finds.  NPR.org    

 

Downes, Stephen. (2016, November 21). Post truth and fake news [Blog post]. [Stephen Downes is an Canadian educator.In 1995 he put out a website on logical fallacies that is archived in various places on the Web.  See http://www.fallacies.ca/  (I hope he is being facetious about taking down satirical sites like The Onion.)  ]

 

​Gershon, L. (2016, November 16).  Ninteenth-century clickbait.  JSTOR Daily.   [Fake and/or misleading information is not necessarily a new phenomenon.]

 

Huguet, Alice, Garrett Baker, Laura S. Hamilton, and John F. Pane, Media Literacy Standards to Counter Truth Decay. RAND Corporation

Journalists Resource Center.  Fake news and the spread of mis-information [Compiled by JRC writer: Denise-Marie Ordway ]

 

Kang, C. (2016, November 22).  Fact Check: This pizzeria is not a child-trafficking site.   New York Times [Comet Ping Pong, Pizzagate]

 

Kaplan, Juliana. (2020, May 17). Inside the surreal Twitter world of Steak-umm, a frozen-meat company that's become an unlikely crusader against coronavirus conspiracies — and a darling of the scientists looking for the cure. Business Insider

 

Maheshwair, S. (2016, November  11).  How fake news goes viral:  A case study.  New York Times.

 

McCoy, T.  (2016, November 20).  For the 'new yellow journalists,' opportunity comes in clicks and bucks. The Washington Post. [“LibertyWritersNews illustrates how websites can use Facebook to tap into a surging ideology, quickly go from nothing to influencing millions of people and make big profits in the process.”]

 

Ohlheiser, A. (2022, August 11).  Google examines how different generations handle misinformation.  MIT Technology Review.  [This article discusses lateral reading to check up on information - and GenZ is better at it than other generations.]

 

Ordway, Denise-Marie. Rated false: Here’s the most interesting new research on fake news and fact-checking.  January 10, 2020 

 

Paul Hoerner, fake news purveyor who claimed credit for Trump's win, found dead at 38. (2017, September 27).  NPR

 

Sample, Ian. (2020, January 13). What are deepfakes - and how can you spot them?  The Guardian. 

 

Shane, S. (2017, January 18).  From headline to photograph, a fake news masterpiece. New York Times

 

Spector, Carrie. (2017, October 4).  Stanford scholars observe 'experts' to see how they evaluate the credibility of information online Stanford. Graduate School of Education.   "The fact checkers read laterally, meaning they would quickly scan a website in question but then open a series of additional browser tabs, seeking context and perspective from other sites."

 

Skwarecki, B. (2017, October 2). How to spot lies on social media after a mass shooting.  Lifehacker. [Written after the mass shooting in Las Vegas, October 1, 2017).

 

Stoddard, J., Tunstall, J., Walker, L., & Wight, E. (2021). Teaching beyond verifying sources and “fake news”: Critical media education to challenge media injustices. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 13(2), 55-70. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2021-13-2-5

 

Szakács, Judit. The business of disinformation. EUROZINE.  (April 24, 2020) ["Disinformation is not always ideologically motivated"]

 

Wineburg, S., Breakstone, J., Ziv, N, & Smith, M. (2020, October 21). Educating for misunderstanding: How approaches to teaching digital literacy make students susceptible to scammers, rogues, bad actors, and hate mongers. Working paper A-21322. Stanford History Education Group. 

 

Woolf, C. (2016, November 16). Kids in Macedonia made up and circulated many false news stories in the US election. PRI's The World. [Why did kids in Macedonia make up false news stories?  Money!  Where does the money come from? Ads!]