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Resources

Allcott, Hunt, and Gentzkow, Matthew. "Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election." Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 1, no. 2, Spring 2017, pp. 211–236, web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf

Barthel, Michael, et al. "Many Americans Believe Fake News Is Sowing Confusion." Journalism and Media, Pew Research Center, 15 Dec. 2016, www.journalism.org/2016/12/15/many-americans-believe-fake-news-is-sowing-confusion. 

Perez, Sarah. "Facebook, Google and others join The Trust Project, an Effort to Increase Transparency Around Online News." TechCrunch, 16 Nov. 2017, techcrunch.com/2017/11/16/facebook-google-and-others-join-the-trust-project-an-effort-to-increase-transparency-around-online-news/.

Wardle, Claire. "Fake News. It Complicated." First Draft, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (Harvard University), 6 Feb. 2017, firstdraftnews.com/fake-news-complicated.

 

 

 

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Bradshaw, Samantha, et al. "Junk News and Bots during the U.S. Election: What Were Michigan Voters Sharing Over Twitter?" Computational Propaganda Project, Oxford University, 26 Mar. 2017, comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/89/2017/03/What-Were-Michigan-Voters-Sharing-Over-Twitter-v2.pdf.

Books About Fake News

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