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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 in-part to meet 45 on his own platform. Whoever monitors twitter at WH tell Pres Trump to ask Putin"What do u hv agst ElectionOpponents bc they are killed/imprisoned/poisoned?" — ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) February 12, 2017 Since elect I use tech like Twitter to promote dialogue abt topics like DEMOCRACY TRANSPARENCY SEPARATION OF POWERS — ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) February 13, 2017 Amanda made a promise this episode and she's doubling down in the Long-List. The rest of #PlatformPod will be released by the end of February, and more resources including readings of The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights are forthcoming in March and April 2017. Attribution because CITE YOUR (RE)SOURCES: Theme Backing Song - Parasite by Lamprey - Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0)   Full Show Notes available at And Leslie.com