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Episode 15 - Misinformation in the Age of Heavy Sighs -- AKA It's hard out here for a fact-checker. Recorded 02/15/2017 ProPublica has a lot more money than they did last year due to Trump’s election. They’re spending it on staff. The New York Times had their best digital subscription numbers since 2011 in the fourth quarter of 2016. A history of the Fairness Doctrine by PBS. According to Pew Research, 44% of U.S. adults get news on Facebook. Most of them - 62% - aren’t looking for it there, though. Tyler and Amanda both use feedly for news (and other stuff). Amanda obliquely referenced this Wall Street Journal but the real story is a study out of Stanford University's History Education Group which found that the majority of students had difficulty distinguishing between paid content (so-called "fake news" and a real news item online. We haven't read all the research, but the Executive Summary is here. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is tweeting to “Whomever monitors twitter" at the White House hoping i