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Fake News, Misinformation, Propaganda, and Pseudoscience: Databases, Journals, and Articles
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types.
NPR recommends making sure headline and article match, quotes are in context, the article refers to the present, the enemy is not generic, and that the source of the news can be identified.
The Guardian suggest the growing importance of social media is to blame, that many students cannot distinguish real from fake, and that we can take steps to keep it from spreading.