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Archives: February 6, 2017

As a presidential election looms in France, Google and Facebook team up with news outlets to factcheck

Shan WangFebruary 6, 2017

Univision’s plans for the former Gawker sites: A shared business backend, less duplication, and a push into TV

“Think of all these sites as the digital, non-linear television arm of Univision.”

Ricardo BiltonFebruary 6, 2017

The history of American conspiracy theories holds some lessons for fake news debunkers, says Jesse Walker

“For a lot of people, the real assumption that they bring to the news, even beyond their partisan affiliations, is an expectation of a smooth narrative…That’s the real bias that readers have to combat, and it’s something that people in the media have to think about.”