Articles written by Margaret Sullivan
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Don't get fooled again by bogus links, bots and pure bunk: Here's how
Roger Daltrey of the Who sang it with a full-throated scream in 1971: “We won’t get fooled again!” And yet, we still do. Oh, do we ever. Remember this one from the presidential campaign? The “news story” that spread the lie that Pope Francis h...
Fake News is Sickening, But Don't Make the Cure Worse Than the Disease
When a guy with an assault rifle walks into a pizza joint to “self-investigate” the made-up conspiracy theory he found on the internet about a nonexistent child-prostitution ring, there’s no doubt we’ve got a problem. And regular folks are reasonably...