News & Research

A New AI “Journalist” Is Rewriting the News to Remove Bias

Want your news delivered with the icy indifference of a literal robot? You might want to bookmark the newly launched site Knowhere News. Knowhere is a startup that combines

April 7, 2018
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Category: Media

US Isn’t Leaving Syria—but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised

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At a rally in Cleveland last week, President Donald Trump said that the US will get out of Syria “very soon.” It is now clear that the 4,000 US troops currently occupying Syria (Washington Post, 10/31/17) will in fact stay in Syria (Independent, 4/4/18),

April 7, 2018
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Category: Media

Media Warn of ‘Russian Bots’—Despite Primary Source’s Disavowal

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One could forgive the average reader for thinking reporters covering bots had been replaced by bots. The formula is something we’ve seen a million times now: After a controversial story breaks, media outlets insist that

April 5, 2018
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Category: Media

With GDPR Decision, Zuckerberg Proves Yet Again He Has Learned Absolutely Nothing From the Cambridge Analytica Scandal

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OK, I’ll go ahead and say it: Mark Zuckerberg’s reputation is in the toilet right now. As the company suffers scandal after scandal and the price of its shares continue to drop

April 4, 2018
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Category: Science

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How Do You Identify Fake News?

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At the beginning of the year, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. Thoughtful, challenging questions have been rolling in ever since, and we’ve been answering them in an occasional series of columns.

April 4, 2018
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Category: Media

He Gave His Life in the Labor Struggle: MLK's Forgotten Radical Message for Economic Justice

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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago this week while in Memphis, where he was supporting striking sanitation workers and building support for his Poor People’s Campaign. We look