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8 posts tagged "fake news"

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‘Fake news’ is our fault

Carolina Jiménez | Friday, April 23, 2021

Fake news. Two words that have seemingly been able to slip into the average Joe’s vocabulary in the past four years. However, pre-2016 election, the words were unbeknownst to the majority of the population. Most blame the appearance on the wondrous former president, who seemed to only be able to communicate in these two words

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Senior advisor for Homeland Security lectures on disinformation, foreign involvement in elections

Maggie Klaers | Monday, March 15, 2021

Between the 2016 election and the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the United States has faced growing concerns over foreign manipulation of elections. Suzanne Spaulding, a senior advisor in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said this involvement is a tool in the “Kremlin playbook,” a ploy to damage a nation’s trust in

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Lecturer explores fake news in business

Gabrielle Penna | Monday, February 8, 2021

Matthew F. Ferraro spoke at the Ten Years Hence Speaker Series 2021 on Friday, lecturing on the impact of fake news on businesses. Ferraro is currently a council member in the Washington D.C. office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr L.L.P., where he practices at the intersection of national security, cybersecurity and crisis management.

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Consume news responsibly in 2020

Mary Bernard | Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Social media is an intrinsic part of news consumption today. As The Observer’s Social Media Editor (and now, one of the Assistant Managing Editors), this reality is not lost on me. Last semester, 15% of our online viewership came directly from clicking a link on social media, and that number continues to increase. My team

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Call me fake news

Gabriel Niforatos | Tuesday, October 30, 2018

I am angry. Over the course of my columns for The Observer, I have tried to be as agreeable as I can possibly be to both sides of the political aisle, in terms of allowing and encouraging dialogue between them. That being said, I am a journalist and I have the privilege of free speech

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Is there a problem with our looking glass?

Gabriel Niforatos | Monday, February 12, 2018

Thomas Jefferson once said, “the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but the newspapers.” This remark came in an era very different from today, an era when journalism and reporting did not connect people nearly as much as they do today, but the argument is poignant

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Feelings or facts?

Colleen Zewe | Monday, January 22, 2018

If there’s one thing I’ve learned writing for The Observer, it is that good journalists must always avoid bias. When I was on student government, I could not write about student government events or elections, because that would be seen as me promoting a group I’m part of. Of course I wouldn’t say anything negative

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Guest lecturer speaks on ethics, activism in the age of Trump

Nicole Caratas | Friday, September 15, 2017

Sonalini Sapra, associate professor of political science and director of gender and women’s studies at Saint Martin’s University in Washington, spoke Thursday at Saint Mary’s about ethics, pedagogy and activism in the age of Donald Trump. “This talk is essentially my attempt to make sense of some of the ethical and pedagogical challenges that I’ve

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