New media course is giving students the skills they need to distinguish fake news from real news

BY: ELIJAH BASSETT At The Plaid Zebra, we try to tell you the truth about what’s going on in the world. But, as you’ve probably heard, not everybody is so scrupulous. In the past year or so especially, the mass…

Russian Spies and Renegade Comedians: why fake news is more complicated than it sounds

BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI When a gunman bursts into a Washington DC pizza shop spurred on by rumors of an underground pedophile ring operated by the Clinton family, we have to admit there is a problem with the news. The back…