How choice can skew the public’s understanding of what is real and what is fake

David Rothschild, an economist at Microsoft Research, is one of the people behind the Media Bias Detector Project, which “Tracks and classifies the top stories published by a collection of prominent publishers spanning the political spectrum in close to real time.” 
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