Since the election, many have tossed blame on Facebook for creating "filter bubbles" in users' feed. But this notion rings hallow because these platforms are designed to cater to people's choices (p. 6).

Since the election, many have tossed blame on Facebook for creating "filter bubbles" in users' feed. But this notion rings hallow because these platforms are designed to cater to people's choices (p. 6).

Though this crowdsourced option for reporting fake news still exists, Young said its influence on the distribution of stories into news feeds might have been supplanted by the "reaction emojis" that Facebook introduced... (p. 6)

Those public fears ballooned when Maine Gov. Paul LePage followed in Christie's tracks and tried to enforce a similar quarantine (p. 3).

Main police officers complained about fielding phone calls from concerned residents who had been duped by fake news articles (p. 3).

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described this allegation as a "pretty crazy idea" before ultimately announcing a move to deter misleading news (p. 2).

To some degree, Zuckerberg's initial stance was warranted (p. 2).

The negative ramifications (untrue statements of Hickox having contracted the Ebola virus) occurred immediately (p. 3).

These algorithms are trained to spot the hallmarks of satire, like extra-long sentences or unexpected juxtapositions of random people and places and locations (p. 5)