Fill in the blanks: What’s still missing from the study of fake news? (A whole lot.) » Nieman Journalism Lab

A report released this week by the philanthropic Hewlett Foundation, “Social media, political polarization, and political disinformation: A review of the scientific literature,” aims to lay out what we do and don’t know about the relationship between those topics. The report is especially useful as a sort of catalog of the questions we still have; it also flags where existing research is in conflict.