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Religious but not Mormon? The church-owned Deseret News considers you a...
The Deseret News is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but you might not detect its Mormon roots from looking at the outlet’s national site — officially came out of beta...
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Pew study: When it comes to political news, Facebook has become local TV for...
Need more proof of the role Facebook is playing in the distribution of news? Among Americans born between 1981 and 1996 — a.k.a millennials — 61 percent get political news from Facebook in a given...
View ArticleWant to stop a spreading fake news story? Choose one of these four points of...
The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with. This weekly roundup offers the highlights of what you might...
View Article#MAGA, Hannity, the Wendy’s chicken nuggets guy, and 2017’s other...
The Twitter of 2017 might best be remembered as the platform for the U.S. president’s morning complaints and (un)diplomatic sparring, followed by, nesting ground for Russian troll accounts. (Other...
View ArticleCirca, Sinclair’s millennial-focused news site (and the final remains of some...
Citing an “onerous” environment for a “smaller publisher,” Sinclair says it’s shuttering Circa, its video-heavy, platform-focused news property that was aimed at millennials. “While we see new business...
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Why liberal satire and conservative outrage are both responses to mainstream...
Editor’s note: Our friend Danna Young is a scholar of, among other things, the intersection of entertainment and information — particularly humor’s use within the political landscape and the ways in...
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Fox News uses the word “hate” much, much more often than MSNBC or CNN
Fox News is up to five times more likely to use the word “hate” in its programming than its main competitors, according to our new study of how cable news channels use language. Fox particularly uses...
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Parler is bringing together mainstream conservatives, anti-Semites, and white...
Since the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Parler has caught on among right-wing politicians and influencers as a social media platform where they can share and promote ideas without worrying about the...
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