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Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
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Yes, social media is undermining democracy
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Media confidence ratings at record lows
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Trust in newspapers and television news collapses to historic low
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The endgames of bad faith communication
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The “misinformation problem” seems like misinformation
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How to Mislead with Facts
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Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online
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Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse
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Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record
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Ledger of Harms
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Media trust hits new low
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A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out to Be Based on Fake Data
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Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
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Bad News
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US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media
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Slamming political rivals may be the most effective way to go viral
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Users post more falsehoods after others correct them: study
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Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking
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Media trust hits new low
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Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online
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The war on disinformation is a war on dissent
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We need a new media system
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Only distributed fact-checking can keep up with democratized distribution
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Information overload helps fake news spread
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The “backfire effect” is mostly a myth, a broad look at the research suggests
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Oft-quoted paper on spread of fake news is retracted
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The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
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We Should Teach Media Literacy in Elementary School
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Anatomy of an online misinformation network
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Moral outrage in the digital age
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Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News
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Fake news is too big and messy to solve with algorithms or editors 
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The declining authority of statistics and the experts who analyse them
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Moral panic over fake news hides the real enemy – the digital giants
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CNN accidentally broadcast 30 minutes of hardcore porn last night
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The Increasing Problem with the Misinformed
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Educated Germans avoid social media
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How Millennials Get News
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Breaking News is broken
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U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news
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