"UMass Fake News Website Helps Identify Questionable Sources" by Lisa Di Valentino

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UMass Fake News Website Helps Identify Questionable Sources

(2018)

Lisa Di Valentino, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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From WGBY Connecting Point:

The term fake news gets used a lot these days, but how can you sort out what is fact from what is fiction? UMass Journalism professor Steve Fox and Librarian Lisa Di Valentino have teamed up to launch a fake news website, designed to do just that. Fox and Di Valentino sat down with Carrie Saldo to discuss the project.

Keywords

fake news,
journalism,
media literacy,
library

Disciplines

Journalism Studies,
Mass Communication,
Social Influence and Political Communication,
Social Media,
Information Literacy and
Political Science

Publication Date

September 12, 2018

Citation Information

Lisa Di Valentino. "UMass Fake News Website Helps Identify Questionable Sources" (2018)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lisa-divalentino/2/