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The Guardian
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20+ min read · From 2016 · Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
Scientific American
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~12 min read · 2020-10-14 · What 1990s Internet protest movements share with today’s disinformation campaigns
The Verge
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The Verge
20+ min read · 2019-12-03 · A guide to slowing down and reading up on internet news
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Nathan Yau
4 min read · From 2017 · Many charts don’t tell the truth. This is a simple guide to spotting them.
The Verge
Facebook and Google make lies as pretty as truth
The Verge
8 min read · From 2017 · If you asked Google who won the popular vote just after the election, there’s a chance you would have been sent to a conspiracy blog with bogus results. And the site is likely to have looked as…
The New Yorker
Truth, Lies, and Literature
The New Yorker
6 min read · From 2018 · The breakdown in the old agreements about reality is now the most significant reality, and the world can perhaps best be explained in terms of conflicting and often incompatible narratives.
The New York Times
How Lies Spread Online
The New York Times
4 min read · From 2018 · They diffuse farther, faster and more broadly than the truth does.
The Verge
The US declared war on TikTok because it can’t handle the truth
The Verge
~13 min read · 2020-08-07 · The new internet cold war is all about lying to ourselves.
