How misinformation goes viral: a Truthy story

From Columbia Journalism Review Wed Sep 3 2014, 11:55:00

By David Uberti On August 26, Fox's Megyn Kelly aired a four-minute segment on an Indiana University project called Truthy, declaring sarcastically, "Some bureaucrat deciding whether you are being hateful or misinforming people - what could possibly go wrong?" Fox & Friends jumped onto the bandwagon two days later. During its four-minute segment, legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. managed to...

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