NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. — As the digital
revolution continues to allow news to be reported from a variety of sources,
the debate around its validity has become a hot topic.
The 2016 United States
presidential election and the Trump administration especially added flames to
the fire known as “fake news.”
According to
the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the average
American adult saw several fake news stories, particularly on social media, in
the months around the election.
Here's how a newspaper in the 1800s helped spark journalistic
sensationalism
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