2016 Election

Truthcast: When Journos Are The Target

CNN’s Jake Tapper, and An Object Lesson In Personal Brands

The moment CNN’s Jake Tapper finished a tough interview with White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, passionate supporters of the President began to fight back, diving deep into…

Fake Your Headline, Sell Your Product.

This semester, my colleague Marc Ambinder and I started a project with students here at USC to investigate our social media feeds. We wanted to see if fake or partisan news would bubble up in our algorithms, and how different those algorithms might be.

Quick Rip and Tilt News Analysis Attracts Eyeballs on Facebook

As I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed the Monday after inauguration weekend, I noticed that most of my friends were replacing their sharing of political news stories with political posts of their own.