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Researchers examine the self-serving fiction of ‘objective’ political news
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Read more at the Columbia Journalism Review: cjr.org Seven years ago, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, media analysts rushed to explain Donald Trump’s victory. Misinformation was to blame, the theory went, fueled by Russian agents and carried on social networks. But as researchers, we wondered if fascination …