fake news Hillary Clinton’s a Russian spy, Jennifer Aniston’s sex swap shame, and own your own alien – in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

fake news Florida skunk ape is real and "gives out a horrifying odor": National Examiner Peter Sheridan

scholarship How Big Tobacco invented Donald Trump and Brexit (and what to do about it) Cory Doctorow

fake news National Enquirer succeeds where FBI and White House have failed, finding “Proof Obama Wiretapped Trump!" Peter Sheridan

fake news Punctuation inflation has infected the tabloids! Peter Sheridan

fake news Newspaper hoax about the gruesome results of a mass breakout at the Central Park Zoo Mark Frauenfelder

media Tabloid tale of man crushed by porn collection was fake Rob Beschizza

scholarship Breitbart was a unique driver of hyper-partisan, trumpist news that shifted the 2016 election Cory Doctorow

politics Advanced de-faking: using public sources to trace the true age of a suspected propaganda video Cory Doctorow

fake news National Enquirer thinks Trump is almost too smart for his own good Peter Sheridan

china Three kinds of propaganda, and what to do about them Cory Doctorow

fake news National Enquirer's "Special investigation" exposes the truth within the Trump White House Peter Sheridan

media theory Wikipedia policy declares the Daily Mail to be "unreliable" and not suited for citation Cory Doctorow

fake news Puppet-master Obama’s plot to undermine Trump, and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

humor Behold the horrors of Future CNN Rob Beschizza

fake news Vampire corpses, Obama’s plot to steal back the White House, and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

video The future of fake news is real-time video manipulation Andrea James

fake news Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news Mark Frauenfelder

fake news Forget “alternative facts.” This week’s tabloids shoot for an entire alternate universe Peter Sheridan

fake news How the Chinese government fabricates social media posts for strategic distraction Mark Frauenfelder