Facebook Turns to News Organizations to Combat Fake News

Facebook announced on Thursday a series of changes designed to combat the spread of fake news on the social media platform. However, Facebook is shifting the actual fact-checking work of what is fake news and what is not to partners who have signed onto Ponyter’s International Fact-Checking Network. Signatories include […]


New York Times Assembles White House Correspondents Team

The New York Times announced on Monday its six member White House correspondents team who will all cover the Trump White House. Fittingly, all six start on January 20, Inauguration Day. Mark Landler, Mike Shear, Julie Davis, and Maggie Haberman will move to the White House beat from their current positions. […]


Average American Life Expectancy Goes Down for The First Time in Decades

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the average American’s life expectancy has experienced a drop of 0.1% from 2014-2015, falling from 78.9 years to 78.8 years. Experts worry this may mark the start of a massive decline in American life expectancy. Critics, however, that think this drop […]


Lydia Polgreen Named HuffPost Editor-in-Chief

Lydia Polgreen of the New York Times was named the editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post on Friday. Polgreen will be only the second editor-in-chief for the Huffington Post, after founder Arianna Huffington. Huffington left the Huffington Post in order to focus on her latest health and wellness venture, Thrive Global. […]


Vice President Biden Teases Presidential Run

Vice President Joe Biden teased a presidential run to reporters on Monday, saying he was looking at a 2020 presidential run. Biden passed on a 2016 presidential run after his son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden passed away from cancer. A reporter asked if the Vice President was “going to […]