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FIGURE 3a

A tweet from a person named Ron Hogan that reads “The Nazis murdered Senator Schumer’s grandmother and most of her children. Trump’s father was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally.” It is in response to a Donald Trump Tweet.

It has been retweeted over 55,000 times

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FIGURE 4a

A story with the headline “MORE HYPOCRISY: Obama banned all Iraqi Refugees for 6 Months in 2011– Liberals said nothing!” over a picture of protests against President Trump’s ban.

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FIGURE 5a

A set of Duck Duck Go search results. The top results are from fact-checking sites Snopes and Politifact.

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FIGURE 6a

A segment of a President Trump speech that reads “We must protect those who protect us. The number of officers shot and killed in the line of duty last year increased by 56 percent from the year before.”

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Duck Duck Go search results. The top search result is an article from the Washington Post fact-checker and we can see the highlighted text that matches our query.

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A story with the headline “Report: US Government Ethics director approved controversial tweets” over a picture of President Trump.

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FIGURE 9a

Text from the article with sentences mentioning Daily Dot highlighted. If you read carefully, the Daily Dot (another publication) is the source of each fact, e.g. “the Daily Dot reported that Shaub sent an email”, etc.

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A screenshot of a page from the publication Network World. There are ten stories at the bottom of the page, but in small print under each one is an indication that they were paid for by an advertiser. The one in the upper left corner reads “Lawmakers Concerned About Insane Military Scope Released to Public” and is sponsored by “ZeroTac Tactical Scopes”.

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An enlargement of the ZeroTac technical scope “article” link, showing the space below it where it indicates the sponsor.

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An article from InfoWorld on the topic of “Integrated Systems” by a man named Paul Miller. But above the article is small text that reads “Sponsored”, and near the top of the page is tiny text that indicates the sponsor is Hewlett Packard, a company that sells integrated systems.

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A screenshot of a New York Times webpage with many items on it. In the middle column of items, a small “News from AP and Reuters” tops the column.

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New York Times article with headline “UK Stock Market Hits Record as Manufacturers Win Business”. Where a reporters name might usually appear under the headline is a small “by the Associated Press”

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FIGURE 18a

An article titled “Do You Support Patriotic Bikers Defending Trump’s Inauguration?” The article says that a source named “Right Alerts Polls” broke the story, but does not provide a link.

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FIGURE 19a

Screenshot of the result of selecting and right-clicking. The term “Rights Alerts Polls” is highlighted and a context menu shown. The context menu offers an option to “Search Google for ‘Rights Alerts Polls’.” Note that you could do this without using the context menu: just copy and paste the phrase into to a Google search box.

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A Google search for “Right Alerts Polls bikers” reveals the article the other page cited as a source. It is the top result.

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FIGURE 21a

The extended quote from the page reads: “These libtards need to shut the hell up. This is not only a biker event, but it is a Trump Supporters event. We are many and varied but we unite as one.” It is said to be a quote on a Facebook page organizing the event.

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Screenshot of selecting “shut the hell up. This is not only a biker event”. The context menu offers an option to “Search Google for ‘shut the hell up. This is not only a biker event’.” Note that you could do this without using the context menu: just copy and paste the phrase into to a Google search box.

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FIGURE 23a

The Google search results for “shut the hell up. This is not only a biker event”. The second result (which the screenshot calls attention to) has a web address on Facebook and is in the subdirectory of “events”.

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FIGURE 24a

Facebook page showing only 1,800 have indicated that they are going to the biker event. In addition, only 8,000 are interested, and the page has only been shared with 10,000 people total.

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Headline Reads: Clinton Received Debate Questions Week Before Debate, According to Sources.

A screenshot of the Baltimore Gazette, a site created to spread misinformation.

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A Google search tip demonstrating how to exclude a specific site from search results. The string used in the example is “baltimoregazette.com -site:baltimoregazette.com”. This would search all sites except for “baltimoregazette.com”.

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A screenshot of the homepage of the Pacific Justice Institute.

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A screenshot of a Google search showing how to use search to learn more about potential biases in web sites.

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