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Trust, not correcting the record, is the key to eliminating disinformation, says Ling Hwey Jeng of Texas Woman鈥檚 University: 鈥淒on鈥檛 talk about politics. Talk about her grandson. Talk about her granddaughter.鈥
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Half of U.S. adults consider fake news a major problem, and they mostly blame politicians and activists for it, according to a new survey.A majority also鈥
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A new report says students who received media literacy training were 18 percent better at identifying false reports than students without the lessons. Girls gained more knowledge than boys.
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A sprawling Russian disinformation campaign aimed at influencing the 2016 elections found success with social media accounts promoting the idea of Texas鈥
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A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington is developing algorithms to detect automated accounts 鈥 also known as "bots" 鈥 that spread鈥
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The journalist who thought up this game says she saw the need before "fake news" was even in the vernacular.
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This year was the most chaotic year America's mainstream news media have faced in a long time 鈥 and not just because of the presidential election, or the prevalence of fake news stories.
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Thousands of Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller's followers on social media might believe that terrorists are 鈥 in his words 鈥攑reparing "for their鈥
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A fake news story has people panicking about a South Texas town being attacked, but all is safe and quiet in Sarita 鈥 despite what you might read鈥