This week on the Truth Squad Truth Cast, I filled in as host and talked with Christi Cameron…
We’ve taken to calling websites that primarily exist to add a partisan gloss to content produced by someone else “rip-n-tilt.” They’re abundant. They exist across the media ecosystem. The conservative-tilting sites are…
On this week’s Truth Squad Podcast, Jordan Winters, Mason Leib, Zachary Kreisler, faculty fellow Marc Ambinder and I discuss what unfolded after a University of Southern California vendor was discovered to be selling t-shirts and other merchandise on campus…
A little bit of wisdom from an old hand
This semester I have been working with Truth Squad as part of my Annenberg Media Center shift. It’s forced me to look more critically at how news is shared on social media.
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…
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.
Jordan Winters
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.
As part of our mission to detect tilted news stories and content— ones that aren’t exactly what they seem — I scrolled through my Facebook feed and reviewed my top ten trending articles. The first three, titled “Skittles,” “Troy Aikman,”…
