Cameron Harris, a recent college graduate, pulled six million people into his bogus story about the discovery of fraudulent ballots for Hillary Clinton.

Source: From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece – The New York Times

“Post-truth—adjective; relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” So says Oxford Dictionaries, announcing their 2016 word of the ye

Source: The Post-Truth Issue – The Chronicle of Higher Education

The truth suffers when search algorithms become our educators.

Source: Google and the Misinformed Public – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Two professors at the University of Washington want to teach students how to survive the avalanche of false or misleading data shaken loose by shifts in media, technology, and politics.

Source: The Fine Art of Sniffing Out Crappy Science – The Chronicle of Higher Education

How I lost, and found, my focus.

Source: Addicted to Distraction – The New York Times

Technology promised to set us free. Instead it has trained us to withdraw from the world into distraction and dependency

Source: The internet as an engine of liberation is an innocent fraud | Aeon Essays

Source: Learning to Read Improves the Structure of the Arcuate Fasciculus