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An exploration of news, journalism and truth from the students at USC Annenberg.
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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…


“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…


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…