The article seemed to be supported by quoting and referring to the Yale study; however, that seemed to be the only major source that the author drew upon. Although I do not think this influenced the outcome of the study, because universities and colleges are inherently liberal institutions, the separation of trump and Clinton supporters in the study could be percieved as a directed smear. The potential bias washes away some when they highlight that the alarming effect coming out of the study has to do people between 18 and 25. Overall, I would say this is trustworthy and newsworthy due to it being based on an academic study and it is not quickly drawing any conclusions, but rather analyzing the results and attempting to determine factors of significance in a constructive fashion.

It's a clear report that ironically shows that too many people aren't looking for thorough information but shocking one-liners and clickbait works:( The study asked people to rate the validity of an articles headline, not the article itself. This could suggest that too many people take a statement at face value and don't need backing information. Facebook has stated the survey is unreliable but also hasn't released any data to companies asking for progress on their efforts in combating fake news on their website, showing, just like the article says the problem so far is getting worse not better.

This is a very important story because it seems Facebook's recent changes to include third party fact-checking "disputed" tags on articles could be backfiring. I'm glad Politico is researching this topic as opposed to taking Facebook at its word that the changes are helping fight fake news. Ultimately third party fact-checking organizations will never be able to address every article on the platform, which is why Tribeworthy, being a crowd-sourced solution, is our best chance. It's also very interesting to see that people distrust these third party organizations as well as mainstream news outlets.

Given the topic of the article, I'm inherently biased to believe in the solution we are providing here on Tribeworthy over third-party fact checkers and Facebook's attempts to quell fake news spread. However, the data points showing Clinton and Trump supporter's overall trust in fact-checking organizations is alarming. What's more, nearly 1,500 news articles are produced each day in the U.S., but in 2016 Snopes, Politifact, and FactCheck were only able to fact check 718, 1737, and 396 news articles respectively. Clearly not scaleable.