A modest proposal for a new way to structure and assess the claims we make — and the conclusions we draw — in the digital space.

A graduate student at the MIT Media Lab is writing software that can highlight false claims in articles, just like spell check.

Frictionless sharing sounds good — but sometimes you’ll go out of your way to put a little friction (or a little white lie) back in.

Zuckerman wants to create nutritional labels for news, showing how much marshmallow fluff you mix in with your meat and potatoes. But both the tech and politics of categorizing journalism have a long way to go.