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| Harvard compiles fake news website list |
| 2017-03-13 |
| The Good News: Rantburg.com ain't on it. The Bad News: Rantburg.com ain't on it. [WashingtonExaminer] A few conservative critics predicted early on that the recent obsession with fake news would lead eventually to right-of-center newsrooms being lumped with the bad actors. It looks increasingly likely that those critics were onto something. Harvard University's library website currently features a page titled, "Fake News, Misinformation, and Propaganda." The page URL even has the word "fake" in it. This portion of the library's website, which can be found in the "research guides" section, is intended to give students, "a brief introduction to the spread of misinformation of all kinds and tools for identifying it, and reading the news with a more informed eye," according to the site. The "fake news" page includes the aptly titled subsection: "False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical 'News' Sources (Huge list of fake news sites)." That subsection links to a massive online database, which lists nearly every legitimate conservative-leaning news groups alongside actual hoax websites. The Washington Free Beacon, Independent Journal Review, the Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner are all on the list. Each is tagged with derogatory labels, including "clickbait," "bias," "unreliable," "political" or a combination of the four. The list also includes conservative commentary sites like TheBlaze, RedState and the Weekly Standard. More at the link. The list can be seen here |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #5 These lists are compiled so that the correctly thinking people don't waste their time thinking for themselves. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-03-13 17:48 |
| #4 It is a list of enemies of Thought-Speak. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-03-13 15:12 |
| #3 Maybe these institutes of credientialism should compile an izvestia list? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-03-13 12:17 |
| #2 It gets better: Harvard isn't even the first school to do this. City University of New York and Radford University have already instructed their students that the database should be used as a tool for identifying false information online. Likely there's more institutions o'higher learning using it as well. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-03-13 12:09 |
| #1 Why should I care what people at Harvard's Library think is fake news? I deem Harvard's list fake news. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-13 10:59 |