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Hoax Slayers

Checking Your Facts: Best of the Fact Checkers www.snopes.com Oldest, highly respected. Started 1994 by David Mikkelson. Owned by...

Watch Out for Where You Get News

People who get their news from a website, phone app, or the radio are the most informed Americans. 76% of them have an average or high...

Thinking Too Fast?

One of the dangers of our easy on/easy off use of Google is the fact that our gleaning may seem to have "found" something that makes...

Truth or Consequences, Just a Thought

A Comment on Relativism In this age of personal decision and opinion, we must clarify something. First, truth is only so if it reflects...

Fight Misinformation - Report It!

If you spot fakes during the US election, this is what to consider when identifying false or misleading reports. § Have I heard of the...

Fake letter from grandma

A friend asked me to read a posting in a conservative online news site that purported to have received a Hispanic grandmother's letter to...

Crash the "Fake News" mantra

You do not need to be held hostage to the nonsense about fake news because you can take control of what you watch and read -- and find...

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by Mark S Thompson