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Fighting fake news isn’t just up to Facebook and Google

NEW YORK — You, too, can join the battle against misleading and other “fake” news online. But your options are somewhat limited unless you’re already an academic or data scientist who’s been studying the subject since way before Donald Trump started running for president. Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, a research scientist at Indiana University, fits that [...]

OSU study shows that ‘satirical news matters’

Satirical news programs have real political effects on those who watch them, according to a new study. This study found that people chose satirical news that coincided with their beliefs or attitudes, and these programs reinforced such attitudes as much as serious news. “Satirical news matters,” said Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, author of the study and professor [...]