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Fake News: Additional Readings

Academic Studies and News Articles Discussing Fake News

Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
Report by the Stanford History Education Group
How Americans Approach Facts and Information
A report from the Pew Research Center by John B. Horrigan
Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content: How News Websites Spread (and Debunk) Online Rumors, Unverified Claims and Misinformation
Report by Columbia Journalism School's Tow Center for Journalism
Center For News Literacy (Stony Brook University School of Journalism)
Resources and news about fake news and news literacy
Fake News and the Spread of Misinformation
Compilation of studies about fake news by Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
Breaking News Consumer's Handbooks
Tips from National Public Radio's On The Media for parsing coverage of breaking news stories
Fighting Fake News: How Libraries Can Lead the Way on Media Literacy
American Libraries Magazine
Truth, Truthiness, Triangulation: A News Literacy Toolkit for a “Post-Truth” World
School Library Journal
Meet the Professor Who’s Trying to Help You Steer Clear of Clickbait
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Eli Pariser Predicted the Future. Now He Can’t Escape It.
An Interview with Backchannel.com
How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation
New York Times, 31 May 2017