{"id":844,"date":"2016-11-16T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/?p=844"},"modified":"2016-11-16T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:31:07","slug":"clickbait-and-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Buyer Beware morphs into Reader Beware!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the buzz around Facebook and fake news sites, my favorite blogger, <a href=\"http:\/\/withoutbullshit.com\/blog\/amazing-facebook-solves-fake-news-problem-not-really\">Josh Bernoff<\/a>, posted some interesting information today. While much of his post was a rant against FB&#8217;s apparent inability to &#8220;fix&#8221; this, he also gave some useful sources for information on what to watch for when trying to determine if a site is legit or not.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best and most user-friendly is a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/10eA5-mCZLSS4MQY5QGb5ewC3VAL6pLkT53V_81ZyitM\/preview\">Goggle doc<\/a> shared by Melissa Zimdars as part of a course she was teaching. \u00a0Zimdars is an\u00a0assistant professor of communication &amp; media at Merrimac College and created a list of sites that may be guilty of posting fake news. I particularly like her tips for analyzing news sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the buzz around Facebook and fake news sites, my favorite blogger, Josh Bernoff, posted some interesting information today. While much of his post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/itservices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}