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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…
Daniela Pieche
May 2, 2017
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…
Carlin Pappas
May 9, 2017
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.
Mason Leib
May 9, 2017
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.
Madeline Ottilie
May 9, 2017
A Satirist’s Take on Fake News: A Conversation With Phil Hendrie
A Satirist’s Take on Fake News: A Conversation With Phil Hendrie
Before the “fake news” phenomenon, we had Phil Hendrie.
Savannah Sinfield
May 3, 2017
Some New Apps and Websites Want To Help You Escape Your Bubble. Here’s Our Evaluation
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…
Madeline Ottilie
Mar 27, 2017
Notes from the Red Hills: The Conservative Communities in L.A. County
This semester, we’ve hosted conservatives on our show and explored conservative Facebook groups, but this week, we dove deeper into the…
Jordan Winters
Apr 14, 2017
Facebook Now Helps Users Spot Fake News
Facebook Now Helps Users Spot Fake News
On April 12, this picture was pinned to the top of my Facebook feed:
Charlotte Scott
Apr 17, 2017
What is it like to manage a Facebook Group of 24,000?
What is it like to manage a Facebook Group of 24,000?
By Jordan Winters
Jordan Winters
Mar 27, 2017
Spurning The Sidebar: Does Facebook Verify The Sponsored Articles That Appear In Its News Feeds?
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…
Charlotte Scott
Mar 20, 2017
A California Conservative Talks Truth
A California Conservative Talks Truth
This week on the Truth Squad Truth Cast, I filled in as host and talked with Christi Cameron, a self-identified “California conservative”…
Jordan Winters
Mar 20, 2017
“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…
rebecca haggerty
Mar 14, 2017
From sad to outrageous: How news becomes hyperpartisan
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…
rebecca haggerty
Mar 13, 2017
Choose Your Own Spin: Animals Abandoned By Liberals? Or In Need of Adoption?
We received a note last week from a Masters of Business for Veterans student — yes, USC has such a program at the Marshall School of…
Madeline Ottilie
Mar 8, 2017
What you’ll learn if you read right-wing “Rip-n-Tilt” sites….
What you’ll learn if you read right-wing “Rip-n-Tilt” sites….
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…
Madeline Ottilie
Mar 7, 2017
Has Google Been Culturally Hacked?
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…
Daniela Pieche
Mar 6, 2017
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