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Not Fake News—Satire Is Helping Spread Misinformation On Social Media
Though some of the headlines from satire sites are outrageous—others are increasingly believable.
For example, if you picked up a Time magazine or a National Lampoon at the checkout line, you knew what to expect between the pages of each," explained Professor Laura Graham, faculty instructor of business communications at North Carolina Central University. "If we as the audience don't do even the most basic work to make sure what we're seeing and passing on is meant to be news rather than satire, then we will be just part of the manufactured outrage and content-less cacophony cluttering today's marketplace of ideas." "Although unintended," said York, "Parody news can add fuel to the Winston Churchill quote, 'A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on."
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