Harvard library circulating ‘fake news’ list, which, of course, includes just about every conservative news site
A few conservative critics predicted early on that the recent obsession with fake news would lead eventually to right-of-center newsrooms being lumped with the bad actors.
It looks increasingly likely that those critics were onto something.
Harvard University’s library website currently features a page titled, “Fake News, Misinformation, and Propaganda.”
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This portion of the library’s website, which can be found in the “research guides” section, is intended to give students, “a brief introduction to the spread of misinformation of all kinds and tools for identifying it, and reading the news with a more informed eye,” according to the site.
The “fake news” page includes the aptly titled subsection: “False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical ‘News’ Sources (Huge list of fake news sites).”
That subsection links to a massive online database, which lists nearly every legitimate conservative-leaning news groups alongside actual hoax websites.
The Washington Free Beacon, Independent Journal Review, the Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner are all on the list. Each is tagged with derogatory labels, including “clickbait,” “bias,” “unreliable,” “political” or a combination of the four.
The list also includes conservative commentary sites like TheBlaze, RedState and the Weekly Standard.
Fox News is not included on the database.
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The online database linked by Harvard’s library features a handful of well-known left-leaning news sites, including the Daily Beast, Raw Story and Think Progress. However, several notable left-of-center newsrooms, including Mother Jones, Media Matters, the New Republic and the Huffington Post, are conspicuously absent.
The database of “fake, false, or regularly misleading websites,” is not a Harvard creation. It was compiled last year by Merrimack College assistant professor Melissa Zimdars, who maintains it is being misrepresented by the press and others.
“t’s not a fake news database,” she told the Examiner, adding that the project was intended originally for just her students.
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Idiotic attempts to call out "fake news" like this absurd Harvard project make me glad Trumpists hijacked the term https://t.co/3A2yFbsdBD
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 11, 2017
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