“In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” That was a weekend Tweet from our president-elect that ripped across headlines and through social media, and gave us yet another object lesson in how fake news travels.

+ WaPo called the claim “baseless” and gave Trump “four Pinocchios.” The NYT said the claim “cited no evidence”. But there’s a more accurate word for baseless claims that cite no evidence. (Hint: It has three letters.)

+ “If fake news had the power to influence people’s minds during the US elections, in a country with a well-established mainstream media landscape, what could it do in Myanmar, with a nascent news media, only recently freed from the military’s stranglehold?” Buzzfeed’s Sheera Frenkel with a very interesting look at the impact of social media in Myanmar: This is what happens when millions of people suddenly get the internet.

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