Small Independent News Outlets have Outsized Impact

Posted By at The Media Consortium, Jo Ellen Kaiser on Nov 9, 2017 |

Small Independent News Outlets have Outsized Impact By Jo Ellen Kaiser at The Media Consortium   Google, Facebook and Twitter were hauled in front of Congress last week to explain how Russian bots were able to spread fake news on their platforms.  The concern—and a very real one–is that these bots and fake news sites had a significant impact on the 2016 election. Fighting fake news, however, is not the only or best way to...