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1. Facebook Live Is the Right Wing’s New Fox News (Alexis Sobel Fitts / Backchannel)
2. We Broke the Panama Papers Story. Here’s How to Investigate Donald Trump (Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer / The Guardian)
3. What We Actually Lose When the USDA and the EPA Can’t Talk to the Public (Kendra Pierre-Louis / Popular Science)
4. Fake Think Tanks Fuel Fake News—And the President’s Tweets (Emma Grey Ellis / Wired)
5. Four More Journalists Get Felony Charges After Covering Inauguration Unrest (Jon Swaine / The Guardian)
6. People Read News On Facebook But They Don’t Really Trust It, A Survey Found (Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed)
