NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik on the challenges journalists face in covering the White House and his own employer being in Trump’s crosshairs.
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Where did the microchip vaccine conspiracy theory come from anyway?
How an innocuous Reddit thread mutated into a dangerous, viral lie.
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The Hate Report: The relationship between fake news and white supremacy
“Because so much disinformation is geared toward splitting people apart, it’s often racialized,” says Snopes Managing Editor Brooke Binkowski.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era
Pizzagate: A slice of fake news
This week, Reveal teams up with The Investigative Fund and Rolling Stone to dissect Pizzagate and the violence it inspired.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era
Anatomy of a fake news scandal
Conspiracy theorists, Russian operatives, Trump campaigners and Twitter bots manufactured “news” that Hillary Clinton ran a pizzeria child-sex ring.