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Want to learn about junk news? Here’s all our award-winning reporting.

Want to learn about junk news? Here’s all our reporting. | Miles O'Brien Productions

UPDATE 6/13/19: This series won a 2019 Mirror Award for Best Story on Social Media in the Crosshairs, tied with a BuzzFeed News series focusing on the same topic. After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it became clear to a lot of people, including me, that the issue of fake news on the internet merited […]

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Inside Facebook’s race to separate news from junk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc26zcT7Tfc

At Facebook, there are two competing goals: keep the platform free and open to a broad spectrum of ideas and opinions, while reducing the spread of misinformation. The company says it’s not in the business of making editorial judgments, so they use fact-checkers, artificial intelligence and their users. Can they stop junk news from adapting? […]

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Inside the Filter Bubble – with Eli Pariser, the man who coined the phrase.

The Internet was supposed to provide a utopian virtual world where all of us could come together in peace, love and harmony to better understand each other and our differing viewpoints… But we got derailed on the road to utopia, didn’t we? Eli Pariser, the man who coined the phrase “filter bubble”, knows as much […]

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Just the Facts – an interview with Brooke Binkowski of Snopes.com

 Long before Facebook, Twitter or even Google existed, the fact checking website Snopes.com was running down the half-truths, misinformation, and outright lies that ricochet across the Internet. Today it remains a widely respected clearinghouse of all things factual and not. As part of my series for the PBS NewsHour on the rise and role […]

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How climate change ‘exacerbates’ wildfires in the American West

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A risky expedition to study the ‘doomsday glacier’

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