But Flipboard is hardly immune to the thorny issue of fake news, which the company’s editorial director once likened to "living in a hellish, ranting, Tower of Babel, with no one speaking the same ideological language and each of us in near-violent disagreement. Since last summer, the app’s engagement numbers have doubled, both in terms of "page flips" (the app's signature page-flipping motion) and the amount of time spent in the app. I love that I can customize it to get the stories I am interested in and mark the items I want to read later. The makers of the Flipboard, a news aggregator with 100 million monthly active users around the world, noticed the same thing: more people are reading the news. The Pew Research Center reports that last year more Americans followed the news "very closely" than the number of people who said they did in 2016. But people have also started paying more attention to the news, at least in the US. And, perhaps, not surprisingly, people's trust of the news isn't at an all-time high. Fake news is hardly new news, but over the past couple years it's found a new home across social media and other news aggregators.
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