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Shifts and nuances in the way we communicate online.
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AP Issues Guidelines for Using the Term 'Alt-Right'

AP Issues Guidelines for Using the Term 'Alt-Right' | Communications Major | Scoop.it

President-elect Donald Trump has faced mounting pressure to repudiate the alt-right. Now, the leading style guide for U.S. journalists says,

 

""Avoid using the term generically and without definition...because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters’ actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience... . In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi or white supremacist."

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Here Are All the Fake 'News' Sites to Watch Out for on Facebook

Here Are All the Fake 'News' Sites to Watch Out for on Facebook | Communications Major | Scoop.it

If "fake news" sites tipped the 2016 U.S. presidential election in the wrong direction, we need to be vigilant to make sure that the next four years (and beyond) are not further manipulated.