Quantifying the “misinformation beat”: 38 years of coverage in major U.S. daily newspapers
Media have made misinformation conversations part of daily life. We looked at nearly four decades’ worth of news stories about misinformation to see exactly what this coverage looked like. We searched five major U.S. daily newspapers for articles containing the misinformation-related terms—disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theory, fake news, and propaganda—then extracted words in proximity to these key terms to identify associative patterns. The post Quantifying the “misinformation beat
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Published: 23 June 2026
Source: HKS Misinformation Review
Category: Research
Topics: Misinformation
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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ethics.ai (23 June 2026), “Quantifying the “misinformation beat”: 38 years of coverage in major U.S. daily newspapers,” evidence record 2147, https://ethics.ai/record/2147 (originally published by HKS Misinformation Review).
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