Dear Listeners, Researchers have spent decades trying to understand how such misinformation (fake news) spreads and, now, a review of their work offers new guidance for the journalists, fact-checkers and others working to find, and defend, the truth. In a report published last week <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797617714579> in Psychological Science, a team of academics reviewed two decades of research to better understand how to effectively debunk misinformation. In the end, they found eight worthwhile studies, with more than 6,800 participants. Link <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/business/media/fight-fake-news.html?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits> Best, Joash Moitui joash.moitui@gmail.com about.me/jmoitui