by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 17, 2017 | Critical Thinking, The Media
Only You, Not Facebook Or Google, Can Stop Fake News Facebook has made some efforts, however ineffective, to stop the plague of fake news on their platform. Now Google is trying to stem the tide of false information online, along with their past attempts to shut down...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 15, 2017 | Critical Thinking, Pseudoscience, The Media
Doctors have decades of experience fighting “fake news.” Here’s how they win. Some lessons from the health community’s long battle with...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 25, 2017 | Pseudoscience, Skepticism
NeuroLogica Blog ” Natural News Delisted from Google It appears that Google has removed all Natural News content from their indexing. This means that Natural News pages will not appear in organic Google searches. This is big news for skeptics, but it is also...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 7, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
WH Official: We’ll Keep Calling Media ‘Fake News’ Until They Stop ‘Attacking’ President Trump ‘Fake News!’ Is An Actual White House Strategy White House official Sebastian Gorka openly admitted on Monday that the Trump...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 4, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Teen Vogue continues their tough hard-hitting journalism covering our So-Called President Of The United States (SCPOTUS). Donald Trump Shared Actual Fake News on His Facebook Page On Thursday, February 2, President Donald Trump took to Facebook to share an article...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 15, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Here are 14 fake news stories created or publicized by Donald Trump Donald Trump tried to present himself as a paragon of journalistic virtue at Wednesday’s press conference, and if you were trapped in a bunker the last two years, from another planet, a frequent...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 18, 2016 | Critical Thinking
Snopes’ Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors The sharp increase in popularity of social media networks (primarily Facebook) has created a predatory secondary market among online publishers seeking to profitably exploit the large reach of those...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 18, 2016 | Critical Thinking
Viralgranskaren is a department in the Swedish newspaper Metro launched in March 2014 . Viral examiner is to review and analyze the news and the Internet phenomenon that becomes viral through social media . They produced a video about “Fake News” and...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 18, 2016 | Critical Thinking
Here’s how to outsmart fake news in your Facebook feed It doesn’t have to be this way. Fake news is actually really easy to spot — if you know how. Consider this your New Media Literacy...