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Zach and Mason Go Deep (Red! Blue!) To Ask Consumers About Trust And Media

We traveled to blue and red precincts in Los Angeles County to see how red-county voters in a blue county really felt about the media.

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Fiskkit (Till You’re Tired Of Fiskking It)

In the new age of journalism, one news solution, Fiskkit, wants to create a platform which allows readers to dissect published articles and share their opinions.

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Bot or Not: A Twitter Bot Detection Tool

You might not know all of your Twitter followers, but you probably expect them to be human. That’s not what new research suggests.

A recent study conducted by the University of Southern California and Indiana University says that up…

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A Satirist’s Take on Fake News: A Conversation With Phil Hendrie

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BuzzFeed’s Outside Your Bubble

As we finish off the current semester where we’ve been digging for the ‘truth’, I decided to check out BuzzFeed’s latest feature which launched this past February called “Outside Your Bubble.”

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Facebook Now Helps Users Spot Fake News

On April 12, this picture was pinned to the top of my Facebook feed:

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Notes from the Red Hills: The Conservative Communities in L.A. County

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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…

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What is it like to manage a Facebook Group of 24,000?

By Jordan Winters

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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…

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