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    Archives: August 16, 2019

    When it comes to the consolidation of local news companies, American worry a lot more about political bias than about newsroom cutbacks
    Laura Hazard OwenAugust 16, 2019
    Don’t click this: When should news organizations use “nofollow” links?
    Plus, a new free course for online fact-checking taught via workspace app Notion.
    Fatemeh Torabi AsrAugust 16, 2019
    One potential route to flagging fake news at scale: Linguistic analysis
    It’s not perfect, but legitimate and faked news articles use language differently in ways that can be detected algorithmically: “On average, fake news articles use more expressions that are common in hate speech, as well as words related to sex, death, and anxiety.”
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