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Camden Conference 2020- Social Media and Democracy: Sorting True Information from “Fake News”

Published: March 19, 2020, 8 p.m.

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell Broadcast Date: 3-19-20 Social Media, Democracy, Fake News, and Fact Checking Key Discussion Points: -Research on how well online news users can distinguish between real news articles and phony “news” -Methods for establishing “ground truth” for news articles -Discussion of pros and cons of crowd-sourced fact checking Guests: Joshua Tucker, Professor, New York University David Brancaccio, American Public Media Nic Newman, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Jeff Jarvis, Professor, City University of New York Nicco Mele, Kennedy School, Harvard University