I call this publication NextDraft because journalism has been called the first rough draft of history. Well, depending on where you’re getting it, there’s another way to refer to news: Fiction. The fake news problem is real, and it’s big. Facebook knows it’s a problem. And they have considered fixes. From Gizmodo: facebook’s fight against fake news was undercut by fear of conservative backlash.

+ This is time of great challenge for the news industry. And it just lost one if its most respected warriors. Gwen Ifill has died at age 61. During an award ceremony last year, Ifill left us with this message: “We can’t expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.” She definitely did that.