EDITOR&PUBLISHER – 02/01/2019
Nu Yang
When Dictionary.com announced its 2018 Word of the Year was misinformation, I’m sure many of us in the news industry were not surprised. Dictionary.com defines misinformation as “false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead”—and there was plenty of that going around last year. From fake political ads on Facebook to fact-checking our president, newsrooms are working overtime to stop misinformation from spreading.