German journalist and novelist Theodor Fontane. Wikimedia Commons Petra S. McGillen, Dartmouth College Donald Trump appears to have a straightforward definition of fake news: Stories…
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By Gage Skidmore (Flickr: Rick Perry) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons by Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune April 5, 2017 WASHINGTON — A new…
We were asked by a reader if President Donald Trump is removing LGBTQ questions from the upcoming census. On March 28th, several media outlets reported that…
by Ariana Tobin and Derek Kravitz ProPublica, April 1, 2017, 11:38 a.m. In a remarkable Friday night news dump, the Trump administration made dozens of…
Lies, pranks and April Fool’s Day jokes show how gullible we can sometimes be. from http://www.shutterstock.com Joseph Paul Forgas, UNSW Homo sapiens is probably an…
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes)….
For some mysterious reason Bill Palmer of the Palmer Report and the Daily News Bin has decided to republish, a false report about Media Bias Fact Check…
Where are the error bars? Shutterstock Winnifred Louis, The University of Queensland and Cassandra Chapman, The University of Queensland Statistics is a useful tool for…
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits any of the following: extreme bias, overt propaganda, poor or no sourcing to credible information and/or is fake news….
by Ken Schwencke ProPublica, March 24, 2017, 8 a.m. The Houston man laid out the details of his triumphant plan during a podcast last July:…
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