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Sources/further reading:

Cadwalladr, C. (2016, December 4). Google, democracy and the truth about internet search. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook>
Coler, J., & Sites, P. of F. N. (n.d.). We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs
Hern, A. (2016, December 6). Facebook reportedly testing new tool to combat fake news. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/06/facebook-tool-fake-news-rank-misleading-language-data-collecting
Kahne, J., & Bowyer, B. (2016). Educating for Democracy in a Partisan Age: Confronting the Challenges of Motivated Reasoning and Misinformation. American Educational Research Journal, 54(1). https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831216679817
Maheshwari, S. (2016, November 20). How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/business/media/how-fake-news-spreads.html
Meriam Library, California State University, Chico. (2010, September 17). Evaluating Information - Applying the CRAAP Test. Retrieved from https://www.csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/eval_websites.pdf
Soll, J. (2016, December 18). The Long and Brutal History of Fake News. Retrieved from http://politi.co/2hf0O1v
Valenza, J. (2016, November 26). Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world — @joycevalenza NeverEndingSearch. Retrieved from http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2016/11/26/truth-truthiness-triangulation-and-the-librarian-way-a-news-literacy-toolkit-for-a-post-truth-world/
Wilkenson, L. (2016, November 28). Another take on information literacy, Bayesian inference, and a possible research agenda. Retrieved from https://senseandreference.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/information-literacy-bayes-and-a-research-agenda/
Zimdars, M. (2016). False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources. Retrieved from https://docs.google.com/document/d/10eA5-mCZLSS4MQY5QGb5ewC3VAL6pLkT53V_81ZyitM/preview?usp=embed_facebook
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