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Food, silver and armpit detoxes: The state of breast cancer misinformation on Pinterest

By Tamar Wilner

4 min readApr 21, 2020

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Food, silver and armpit detoxes: The state of breast cancer misinformation on Pinterest

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Trust, Media and Democracy

The case for a media bias dashboard

Emerging metrics let news outlets analyze their choice of stories, sources, and language. Can this aid audience trust?

3 min readJan 26, 2018

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The case for a media bias dashboard

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Tamar Wilner

8 ways to avoid despair

A recipe for climbing out of news-induced depression.

5 min readOct 26, 2017

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8 ways to avoid despair

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People don’t want help finding the truth? Not so fast.

“You can’t correct fake news!” “People don’t care!” Research findings about misinformation this week have made for somewhat depressing…

5 min readSep 15, 2017

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People don’t want help finding the truth? Not so fast.

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The NY Times isn’t serious about reader trust — or it just doesn’t get it

Some in the media are thinking big about how journalism can rebuild trust through transparency. I was glad to see this Twitter exchange…

3 min readJun 1, 2017

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The NY Times isn’t serious about reader trust — or it just doesn’t get it

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Bottom of the ninth: The last-ditch effort to strip a Texas doctor of his license

The Texas Medical Board (TMB) isn’t going down without one last swing. This week the regulator filed an 111-page exception to state judges’…

4 min readNov 3, 2016

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Bottom of the ninth: The last-ditch effort to strip a Texas doctor of his license

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Texas judges absolve cancer doctor Burzynski of most charges

Two Texas judges released their findings yesterday in the case of Stanislaw Burzynski, the controversial Houston cancer doctor who’s been…

3 min readOct 13, 2016

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Texas judges absolve cancer doctor Burzynski of most charges

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Howling Laud Trump

The Monster Raving Loony Party just joined the US ballot

5 min readJul 21, 2016

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Howling Laud Trump

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‘There is No Market for Fact-Checking’: Trooclick Exits the Verification Scene

One of the first companies to try and automate fact-checking now says “there is no market for fact-checking” — at least, not as you and I…

8 min readMar 23, 2015

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‘There is No Market for Fact-Checking’: Trooclick Exits the Verification Scene

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Tamar Wilner

Fish wrappers and encyclopedias: how can we fix newspapers’ update problem?

News outlets are going about corrections and updates all wrong. Here’s some ideas on a healthier approach.

8 min readFeb 19, 2015

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Fish wrappers and encyclopedias: how can we fix newspapers’ update problem?

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Tamar Wilner

Tamar Wilner

Freelance journalist and researcher covering misinformation, fact-checking, science communication and the media. More at www.tamarwilner.com.

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