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Though fake news is a timely topic for a paper and one with many possibilities, it is also a term loaded down with baggage. News and the media:
But fake news is also an epithet (See the illustration on the left). |
Fortunately, you can still write a great paper about fake news if you remember the term covers a complex mix of many subjects.
False news (Social media) (with the exact punctuation) is EBSCOHost's official subject heading for news that is less than truthful on Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube.
CQ Researcher and Opposing ViewPoints also offer good background pieces on the subject.
Other ways to search about fake news include:
| parody AND news | satire AND news | confirmation bias AND news (Confirmation bias is stories that confirm that your opinion is correct.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| polarization AND news (Polarization is strong, political division.) | Russia AND disinformation | Russia AND 2016 Presidential campiagn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| propaganda AND news | trust AND journalism | integrity AND journalism | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Remember an AND in a two part topic, is not a word but an operator which finds the overlap between two ideas as the diagram below shows.
