Tag: internet
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THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY OF THE WEB
Unlike human babies, whose conception is a matter of seconds but gestation and birth last usually nine months, scientific ideas take but a second to get conceived and years to actually get created. The now ubiquitous Internet is one such a baby. As close as anyone can pinpoint the exact delivery date, the Internet is…
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FIRST SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF FAKE NEWS
The science of fake news gets a boost On March 9, 2018, the largest-yet study of fake news was published in Science. Accompanying it was a second article in Science, in which scientists called for: … interdisciplinary research to reduce the spread of fake news and to address the underlying pathologies it has revealed. The large study is titled The Spread of…
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GOOD NEWS: AMERICA IS MATURING AS A NATION
GOOD NEWS: AMERICA IS MATURING AS A NATION Thanks to the internet and social media, Americans are now learning to distinguish between real and fake news It’s getting harder to pull the wool over American voters’ eyes The Reuters Institute For The Study Of Journalism recently released a report showing that trust levels in news…
Truth in Media 