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Appeals court set to rule on restraint of Muslim ban as California student journalists cover impact of “Executive Disorder”

Beginning Friday, Jan. 27, student journalists at the Blue Devil Hub spent the next seven days covering an airport protest in San Francisco, a fundraising drive that raised $22,000 for a local Islamic mosque after it was vandalized on Jan. 22, the story of a Davis High School parent who was refused permission to travel to Iran for her father's memorial service after the Trump ban went into effect, and a meeting of the local school board to answer questions on "what can schools do to protect their most vulnerable students from a federal government that is targeting them and their families?"
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Here Today project quotes Trump on #RefugeeBan: ‘It’s not going to be pretty’

"Here Today," our just-finished digital storytelling project in Paris, gives a human backstory and predicts the chaos that erupted after an executive order on immigration signed by President Donald Trump last Friday.
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As Trump becomes @POTUS, some still debate role of social media, fake news, memes in his victory

Not surprisingly, a Stanford study released on Nov. 21 found that most teenagers were not able to distinguish between online opinions/sponsored content and news. This, combined with the scope of false articles that rippled through Facebook in the weeks and months prior to the election, has led some to wonder if fake news directly affected voters’ choices and students’ opinions.
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