4/26/2019: Social media shut down in Sri Lanka in bid to stem misinformation - Big Setback for SpaceX After Crew Capsule Accident

Today's Article: Social media shut down in Sri Lanka in bid to stem misinformation
From: MSN.com
Readability Score: 13.7

Sri Lankan government shuts down social media to try to stem misinformation. Good idea? Bad idea? What are the possible unintended consequences?

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Today's Alternate Article: Big Setback for SpaceX After Crew Capsule Accident
Readability Score: 9.9

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9/21/2017: Outlawing War? It Actually Worked - Five Reasons Why People Share Fake Photos During Natural Disasters

Today's Article: Outlawing War? It Actually Worked
From: New York Times
Readability Score: 8.9

If you were to ask historians to name the most foolish treaty ever signed, odds are good that they would name the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928.

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Today's Alternate Article: Five Reasons Why People Share Fake Photos During Natural Disasters
Readability Score: 7.7

Natural disasters are dramatic enough, and yet every time one hits, the Internet lights up with years-old pictures, out-of-context videos and, inevitably, the mascot of all fake social media posts: road shark.

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