Top Stories published by truthsquad in March of 2017

From sad to outrageous: How news becomes hyperpartisan

We’ve been tracking our social media feeds at USC this semester, and the experience made me go back and check some of the posts shared on my own feed. I found an article that shows just how much news can change in the hyperpartisan…


Some New Apps and Websites Want To Help You Escape Your Bubble. Here’s Our Evaluation

As public trust in the media sinks to a new low, reflecting the widespread belief that content is shaped and plagued by political biases, several outlets are taking advantage of the…


Has Google Been Culturally Hacked?

On the latest episode of the Annenberg Media Truth Squad Truthcast, we spoke to Jonathan Albright, an assistant professor of communication at Elon University, and a leading authority on how fake news sites and hyper partisan websites spread their messages.


Spurning The Sidebar: Does Facebook Verify The Sponsored Articles That Appear In Its News Feeds?

In a Medium article written on June 2, 2016, Hunch.ly, a web sleuthing company, exposed Facebook’s lax advertising policy, one that allowed the post’s author to…


“Rip and tilt” rules, and other things we’ve learned from tracking social media

My colleague Marc Ambinder and I, along with several USC journalism students, have been tracking our social media feeds for a project called “Truthsquad.” Here’s are some highlights of what…