In a BBC article by Jane Wakefield, Sally Lehrman discusses the growing
concern about fake news on Facebook and Twitter, and how the Trust Project is working to come up with tools to improve trust in the mainstream media.
Adds SUNY Fredonia Journalism Prof. Mike Igoe, who like Coppola is also an attorney and former TV reporter: «Because of
the concern about fake news and other things, some people see this as acceptable and a way of getting back at the media.
To combat our growing
concerns about fake news and filter bubbles, we're going to have to take the task of information literacy more seriously.
Facebook's outward dismissal on Saturday of
concerns about fake news also runs counter to a Gizmodo report today that a high - level internal debate over fake news has been going on at the company since May.
Not exact matches
Besides the privacy scandal, Facebook also has been dealing with
fake news, the use of Facebook to spread hate and discord and
concerns about social media's effect on people's mental well - being.
The two most discussed
concerns this past year were
about diversity of viewpoints we see (filter bubbles) and accuracy of information (
fake news).
After weeks of denying that the spread of viral «
fake news» stories was a problem that it needed to be
concerned about, Facebook (fb) has finally announced some concrete measures designed to blunt the force of hoaxes and misinformation, including a partnership with external fact - checking organizations who call out
fakes.
The DCMS committee's enquiry began last year as a probe into «
fake news» but has snowballed in scope as the scale of
concern around political disinformation has also mounted — including, most recently, fresh information being exposed by journalists
about the scale of the misuse of Facebook data for political targeting purposes.
At a conference days after the U.S. presidential election, Zuckerberg dismisses
concerns about Facebook's role in its outcome: «Personally, I think the idea that
fake news on Facebook, of which it's a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea.»
«In an era when our nation is increasingly
concerned about the spread of
fake news, it is unacceptable that a media conglomerate like Sinclair would force our trusted local
news anchors to push a one - sided political agenda, valuing partisan politics over informing the American public,» Rhodes said.
But I sense that not only are people increasingly
concerned about how much privacy is regularly conceded to use the basic utilities of the information age, how that information is being used, and what the effect is on children's brains, but also they are
concerned about malvertising and
fake news and the effect they have had in the estates of the realm.
All this
concern is leading to governments and others fretting
about how to control «
fake news» and what limits could be imposed on the Internet.
There's a lot of
concern in Mexico
about the
fake news.
As a result of their inquiry into
fake news, they are increasingly
concerned about the way big internet companies use billions of points of personal data on individuals to target both advertising and political messages at them.
Ives said Wall Street is more
concerned about the latest situation than it was
about issues such as
fake news spreading on Facebook's platform.
Facebook has sought to placate
concerns about how
fake news can spread on its platform by introducing various tools and processes intended to add more context around
news content and / or try to limit the spread of
fake news by hampering malicious actors.
Besides the privacy scandal, Facebook also has been dealing with
fake news, the use of Facebook to spread hate and discord and
concerns about social media's effect on people's mental well - being.
We're not in the business of writing regularly
about «
fake»
news, but it's hard not to be
concerned about the kind of mimicry technology is making possible.