[liberationtech] [Air-L] Fake News

[Michael Stewart]

relevant:
danah boyd's "Did Media Literacy Backfire?"
https://points.datasociety.net/did-media-literacy-backfire-7418c084d88d

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 2:56 PM David Stodolsky <dss at secureid.net> wrote:

>
> > On 24 Dec 2016, at 16:17, kalev leetaru <kalev.leetaru5 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > One final set of thoughts on the topic of false and misleading news - it
> is
> > important to remember that even the marque brands in journalism
> > all-too-often run stories without the most cursory of verification:
>
> Also a problem in science:
>
> Fake Medical Journals Are Spreading, And They Are Filled With Bad Science
>
>
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/01/03/fake-medical-journals-are-spreading-and-they-are-filled-with-bad-science/#181e594768cb
>
>
> It's not just politics: 2016 was an epidemic year for fake news in
> science, too
>
>
> http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-fake-science-news-20170103-story.html
>
>
> dss
>
> David Stodolsky, PhD                   Institute for Social Informatics
> Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
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>
>
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