- Al Gore couldn't believe his eyes: as the 2000 election heated up, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other top news outlets kept going after him, with misquotes ("I invented the Internet"), distortions (that he lied about being the inspiration for Love Story), and strangely off-the-mark needling... http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/gore200710? 95 comments reddit.com
- So the entire post about the land mark SCOTUS decisions was removed. So there is a story about WHY the Chevron precedent mattered. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51ywwrq45qo 237 comments economics
- Mark Hammill (Luke Skywalker) is auctioning off a signed Airdrieoneans shirt to raise money for the clubs new Autism-friendly sensory room. I posted the story of the new kit on here last month! http://airdriefc.com/news/2017/02/markhamill 30 comments soccer
- People who post stories marked false by Snopes on Reddit fall into five groups: Reason to Disagree, Changed Belief, Steadfast Non-Standard Belief, Sharing to Debunk, and Sharing for Humor. Reducing misinformation requires different approaches for each group. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555128 188 comments science