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Other participants: Fire stations, and police departments, and schools.
Plus: A big overview of all the research that we have so far.
It’s preparing to partner with other international newsrooms.
Experimentos mostram que problemas são culturais e estruturais.
“This ‘news’ is there to influence the political process in Germany, and we think it’s very important to put them straight.”
A new system funnels fake news reports to fact-checkers from Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, ABC, and AP.
Tweaks to the News Feed algorithm that push back against satire and hoaxes suggest that Facebook wants better content — but is pushing responsibility on its users.
Plus: A shield-law victory, messaging changes at Twitter and commenting changes at HuffPo, and rest of the week’s news in media and tech.
Plus: The fallout from WikiLeaks’ hoax, the rise and fall of Jonah Lehrer, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.