Opening comments

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Sources

Articles/E-books (Media in general)

– Study about social media

– Fake news and Facebook

– Repetition Makes Us Believe Misinformation

– The Debunking Handbook

   Articles (Russian Interference)

         – A Russian Facebook page organized[source 1] a protest [source 2] in Texas

– A Timeline of the Russia Investigation and Donald Trump

          – Fake News for $$$

Websites

– First Draft – Uses research based methods to fight misinformation WHICH gets a

mention in How Real is Fake News below.

– Web Literacy online handbook

       – Online course: Calling Bullshit

Podcasts

– How Science Created Morons – how one of the worst ideas in science got a big push

from a bad study and intellectuals of the day lapped it up

Video

– Scientific Studies with John Oliver and a companion Vox article

– Circular Reporting as a cute cartoon

       – Ted Talk: How Real is Fake News?

– Ted Talk: Information Literacy

Quiz

      – How well can you tell fact from opinions?

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