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Revelers celebrate with a sparkler near the White House after President Barack Obama announced that U.S. authorities have recovered the dead body of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in the early morning hours in Washington, May 2, 2011. (REUTERS)

These Students Didn’t Know Bin Laden Was Dead. How Did We Get so Clueless about News?

by Margaret Sullivan | Sep 19, 2016 | Media

Veteran journalist Alan Miller tells the story of the high school students who, years after the fact, didn’t know that Osama bin Laden had been killed. These were seniors, no less — in a journalism class at a well-regarded New York City charter school. “Their reaction...

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Romanian Razvan Cernaianu, formerly known as a hacker by the name of TinKode, works at his laptop in his office in Bucharest in this March 15, 2013 file picture. After hacking the Pentagon, NASA and Britain’s Royal Navy for fun, TinKode got a real job as a computer security expert for a Romanian cyber safety consultancy. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel/Files)

Opinion: Fabricating news in the digital age

by Ali Ibrahim | Jun 4, 2013 | Opinion

Even as it opened up new horizons in the field of information technology and allowed for a rapid exchange of information across the world, the era of the Internet and social media has created a lot of room for misunderstandings. The Internet has often been used to...