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how to make money by writing reviews on amazon As Facebook and now Google face scrutiny for promoting fake news stories, Melissa Zimdars, a communication and media professor from Merrimack College in Massachusetts, has compiled a handy list of websites you should think twice about trusting. "Below is a list of fake, false, regularly misleading, and otherwise questionable 'news' organizations that are commonly shared on Facebook and other social media sites," Zimdars explains. "Many of these websites rely on 'outrage' by using distorted headlines and decontextualized or dubious information in order to generate likes, shares, and profits." (Click here to see the list.)
Be warned: Zimdars's list is expansive in scope, and stretches beyond the bootleg sites (many of them headquartered in Macedonia) that write fake news for the sole reason of selling advertisements. Right-wing sources and conspiracy theorists like Breitbart and Infowars appear alongside pure (but often misinterpreted) satire like the Onion and The New Yorker's Borowitz Report. "Not all of these sources are always or inherently problematic, but I'm including them because they should be considered in conjunction with other news/info sources due to their tendency to rely on clickbait headlines," Zimdars notes. You should read it closely, feel free to disagree, and, in the spirit of media literacy, do your own research.
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