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- Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/google-facebook-fake-news-journalism.html 434 comments
- Jumbling of content on social media makes viewers less likely to check sources, study finds. People viewing blend of news and entertainment on a social media site tended to pay less attention to the source of content they consumed – meaning they could easily mistake satire or fiction for real news. https://news.osu.edu/how-social-media-makes-it-difficult-to-identify-real-news/ 7 comments science
- Real wages for workers fall while executive pay rises 11% | The People's News https://www.thepeoplesnewsonline.co.uk/single-post/2018/08/15/real-wages-for-workers-fall-while-executive-pay-rises-11/ 270 comments worldnews
- Half of tea partiers pay no federal income taxes. why isn't that the real news story? http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/04/47-of-tea-partiers-pay-no-federal-income-taxes/38924/ 213 comments politics
- Study: Many Americans share fake news on social media because they’re simply not paying attention to whether the content is accurate — not necessarily because they can’t tell real from made-up news. Partisanship was a driving factor behind 15.8% of decisions to share false headlines on social media. https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/03/why-do-americans-share-so-much-fake-news-one-big-reason-is-they-arent-paying-attention-new-research-suggests/ 206 comments science
- "The real question is, who is going to PAY professional journalists to go to news scenes? If you broke your leg and your choice would be to have your neighbor who had faithfully watched every episode of "ER" set it, or go to a hospital, there is no question what you would do." http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0907/revisiting-the-death-of-photojournalism-ten-years-later.html 5 comments business
- Opinion: Trump doesn’t pay taxes? That’s old news. The real story is the president’s personal debts coming due https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-doesnt-pay-taxes-thats-old-news-the-real-story-is-the-presidents-personal-debts-coming-due-2020-09-28?mod=mw_latestnews 589 comments politics
- Trump doesn’t pay taxes? That’s old news. The real story is the president’s personal debts coming due | Americans deserve to know about politicians’ potential conflicts https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-doesnt-pay-taxes-thats-old-news-the-real-story-is-the-presidents-personal-debts-coming-due-2020-09-28 4 comments politics