Fake News: Articles

June 17, 2020 - An article from the London School of Economics and Political Science, with helpful questions to ask when reading an article about COVID-19.

June 3, 2020 - A psychology professor from Northeastern University explains how beliefs about viruses and biology affect misconceptions about COVID-19.

June 25, 2020 - An article from the Conversation, republished by Snopes, analyzing the role of "motivated reasoning" in understanding the science of coronavirus/ COVID-19.

Undated - a quick side bar to the Goodwill Community Foundation's Digital Media Literacy tutorial.

August 30, 2017 - The authors conducted a literature review and categorized different types of fake news. This article was uploaded to ResearchGate by one of the study's authors. It was originally published in the journal Digital Journalism.

March 2018 - David Lazer et al. examine Fake News and why it is effective.

March 9, 2018 - A Science Magazine article that investigated the diffusion of "all of the verified true and false news stories distributed on Twitter from 2006 to 2017."

March 27, 2018 - A PBS interview with Lazer and Baum, the first two authors of the Science of Fake News.

January 28, 2019 - A summary from Wired UK of the Lazer article "The Science of Fake News."

August 16, 2020 - Gives examples of Fake News being used as information warfare and describes some steps military members are taking to combat fake news.

June 8, 2018 - A blog post (NOT a peer-reviewed journal article) by a psychologist summarizing some of the research in the field. You can find many of the original articles mentioned in the HCC Libraries databases or on ResearchGate.net (a site where researchers freely share their published and in-progress works.)

December 5, 2016 - An analysis from PBS Newshour writer Nsikan Akpan of some high-profile fake news stories and their consequences.

September 19, 2019 - An opinion piece by online marketing specialist Goran Mirković about the dangers of personalized news and "filter bubbles."