HIGHER EDUCATION TAKES SIDES: Harvard library circulating ‘fake news’ list, which, of course, includes just about every conservative news site.
The “fake news” page includes the aptly titled subsection: “False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical ‘News’ Sources (Huge list of fake news sites).”
That subsection links to a massive online database, which lists nearly every legitimate conservative-leaning news groups alongside actual hoax websites.
The Washington Free Beacon, Independent Journal Review, the Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner are all on the list. Each is tagged with derogatory labels, including “clickbait,” “bias,” “unreliable,” “political” or a combination of the four.
The list also includes conservative commentary sites like TheBlaze, RedState and the Weekly Standard.
Legacy media organizations, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, are also excluded from the list, despite that they’ve bungled several recent Trump-related “scoops.”
The online database linked by Harvard’s library features a handful of well-known left-leaning news sites, including the Daily Beast, Raw Story and Think Progress. However, several notable left-of-center newsrooms, including Mother Jones, Media Matters, the New Republic and the Huffington Post, are conspicuously absent.
The database of “fake, false, or regularly misleading websites,” is not a Harvard creation. It was compiled last year by Merrimack College assistant professor Melissa Zimdars, who maintains it is being misrepresented by the press and others.
“[I]t’s not a fake news database,” she told the Examiner.
What do they teach them in schools these days? Ideological rigidity, mostly.