23965 shaares
300 results
tagged
fakenews
More teenagers are getting news and information from them.
Grimmelmann on the ills of the attention economy.
Facebook fails to comprehend the nature of Holocaust denial and other forms of bigotry—and so it's aiding their spread, instead of combatting them.
It shouldn’t be this central to a functioning polity, but here we are.
Interesting approach!
The social network exploded in Myanmar, allowing fake news and violence to consume a country emerging from military rule.
Drop all pretense of ethics and choose the path that builds your persona as an unscrupulous media magnate. Your task is to get as many followers as you can while slowly building up fake credibility as a news site.
How the anti-vaccine movement used an information void to inject itself into the top results.
Avoid negations, use graphics, and get the story right the first time!
For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties to a middle-aged white man in Australia, a review of the page and associated accounts and websites conducted by CNN shows.
Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter, penetrating further, faster, and deeper into the social network than accurate information.
A new report by Knight Foundation explores how social media subcultures — Black Twitter, Feminist Twitter, and Asian American Twitter — interact with the news.
Using "you have to trust something" as a pedagogical frame.
Excellent overview of what "fake news" is and why combating it is complex and difficult.
“If the Internet Research Agency were a start-up media company, they probably would not be picking up a fresh round of venture capital.”
From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet — and in real-life American communities.
Flickr: Rosa MendozaA friend of mine worked for an online dating company whose audience was predominantly hetero 30-somethings. At some point, they realized that a large number of the “female” acco…
Simply presenting the facts is generally not effective in changing minds on a charged issue, writes Gleb Tsipursky.