Photo Source: Wikimedia Judith Townend, University of Sussex and Richard Danbury, De Montfort University Donald Trump has declared war on anonymous sources and wants to…
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Over the last few days there has been speculation on why Natural News (naturalnews.com) was banned by Google. On Feburary 22, 2017 approximately 140,000 pages…
WND (World Net Daily) has included Media Bias/Fact Check in their top 9 fakest news fact checkers list. Although we are not familiar with a…
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Aly Colón, Washington and Lee University News consumers today face a flood of fake news and information. Distinguishing between fact and fiction has become increasingly…
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham There are more academic publishers out there than ever before. In 2014 there was an estimated 28,100 active scientific journals,…
Ylva Rodny-Gumede, University of Johannesburg The year 2016 will go down in history as the year in which fake news really took centre stage. It…
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