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Money Unlimited

New Yorker by Jeffrey Toobin

When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was first argued before the Supreme Court, on March 24, 2009, it seemed like a case of modest importance. The issue before the Justices was a narrow one. The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance ...

Posted by Dwight Rousu

4.1

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Mitt Romney's flip-flops

PolitiFact by Bill Adair , Louis Jacobson

For the 2012 presidential campaign, we're using the Flip O-Meter to assess the statements of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. This article includes links to the Flip-O-Meter items we've published on Romney. We'll update it as we publish ...

Posted by Fabrice Florin

3.9

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Twitter and Reddit as crowdsourced fact-checking engines

GigaOM by Mathew Ingram

New research about how news is verified through Twitter and a crowdsourced debunking of some fake Wikipedia entries reinforce the point that social networks and online communities can be powerful tools for the real-time verification of events, ...

Posted by Fabrice Florin

3.9

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Do You Want the Good News First?

New York Times by Thomas L. Friedman

I’ve spent the last week traveling to two of America’s greatest innovation hubs — Silicon Valley and Seattle — and the trip left me feeling a combination of exhilaration and dread. The excitement comes from not only seeing the stunning ...

Posted by Barry Grossheim

3.9

Today's News (MSM)

G8 leaders end summit with pledge to keep Greece in eurozone

The Guardian by Ewen MacAskill

US and France succeed in putting promotion of growth at top of communique despite ...

Posted by Fabrice Florin

3.3

Today's News (IND)

Bachmann’s Fundraising Whopper

FactCheck by Robert Farley

In several urgent fundraising appeals, Rep. Michele Bachmann falsely claims that biased “liberal judges” ...

Posted by Fabrice Florin

3.9

Recent Reviews - News

Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts

Huffington Post, Associated Press by Tom Raum

When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of ...

Posted by Dwight Rousu

4.4

Today's Opinion (MSM)

Well: Sleep Apnea Tied to Increased Cancer Risk

New York Times by Anahad O'connor

Two new studies associate a common disorder of sleep that causes pauses in ...

Posted by nancy martinez

4.5

Today's Opinion (IND)

How to peek through Dan Schultz’s Truth Goggles, the ...

Nieman Journalism Lab by Andrew Phelps

Last November I wrote about Dan Schultz and his Truth Goggles, a piece of software ...

Posted by Fabrice Florin

3.6

Recent Reviews - Opinion

Well: Sleep Apnea Tied to Increased Cancer Risk

New York Times by Anahad O'connor

Two new studies associate a common disorder of sleep that causes pauses in ...

Posted by nancy martinez

4.5

Money Unlimited

New Yorker by Jeffrey Toobin

Fabrice's Rating

4.2

Excellent report on how the U.S. Supreme Court reached its Citizens United decision to allow corporations to make unlimited contributions to political campaigns. This in-depth article provides a factual, play-by-play account of how Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated this reversal of ... More »

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