• The president sets the tone
• Julia Roberts changes stripes
• Obamas and …. Ezekiel Wilekenmeyer Williams (Jinglehimer Smith)
• Michelle is . . . furious (says robonews correspondent)
• US Ambassador to The Netherlands discovers Dutch journalists don’t buy ‘fake news’ line
• Jeff Flake speech on Senate floor (Jan 17, 2018)
• Trump hands out ‘fake news awards‘ (reportage)
• Snopes ‘headlines‘
• Snopes ‘Biggest conspiracy theories of 2017‘

Resources

• Snopes fake news site
• First Draft News (from Harvard Kennedy School)
• Brooke Donald. 2016. Stanford researchers find students have trouble judging the credibility of information online. Nov 22, Stanford Graduate School of Education.
• Andrew Higgins, Mike McIntire, Gabriel Dance. 2017. ‘Inside a fake news sausage factory: ‘This is all about income.’ Nov 25, NY Times.
• Jill Markgraf. 2017. Evaluating information sources in a ‘fake news’ era. Jan 26, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
• Hans Grossegger and Mikael Krogerus. 2017. Fake news and botnets: How Russia weaponized the web. Dec 2, The Guardian.
• Phillip Ewing. 2017. Russians targeted U.S. racial divisions long before 2016 and Black Lives Matter. Oct 30, npr.org.