“Residents cycle between verifying information and disengaging from news to relieve stress.” In the International Journal for Communication, Temple University’s Andrea Wenzel looks at how consumers — in 13 focus groups across cities in California, Indiana, Kentucky, and New York — “navigate vast quantities of often conflicting information and misinformation […] Read more »
How fake news gets into our minds, and what you can do to resist it
Julian Matthews, Monash University Although the term itself is not new, fake news presents a growing threat for societies across the world. Only a small amount of fake news is needed to disrupt a conversation, and at extremes it can have an impact on democratic processes, including elections. Read more: […] Read more »
Tick, Tick, Tick: The Countdown to the release of the Mueller report
Three in four Americans told the NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll they want the full report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation to be released. Will this week’s redacted version suffice? Can the nation move on? What does the release mean for the Trump Administration and for President Donald Trump’s job approval […] Read more »
Mueller report findings upend partisan views of probe, poll finds
Americans are split over whether House Democrats should continue to investigate President Trump after special counsel Robert S. Mueller III made no determination about whether he attempted to obstruct justice during the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, a Washington Post-Schar School poll finds. The division marks a […] Read more »
Mueller Report a 2020 Turning Point
Sunday afternoon’s release of Attorney General William Barr’s summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report marks a critical point in the 2020 presidential campaign. Democrats and other critics of President Trump had convinced themselves that Mueller would report a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence operatives and/or that […] Read more »
If the Mueller probe was truly a ‘witch hunt,’ why not pardon the alleged ‘witches’?
Ever since Attorney General William P. Barr reported that Robert S. Mueller III had decided not to accuse President Trump of crimes, Trump has been telling anyone who would listen about the vast, failed conspiracy to take him down. … He has branded this whole thing a “witch hunt.” Even […] Read more »