Apparently the ad revenue
from fake news articles posted on Facebook was enough to make a decent income in Macedonia.
Not exact matches
A study
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently observed that
fake news is more readily consumed than the truth; An
article in The Conversation reported that many Australians can not confidently recognise
fake news, and researchers
from The University of Canberra found that over a third of Australians used Facebook to get their
news.
The authors found that, controlling for other factors, such as whether respondents liked or disliked Clinton and Trump, former Obama voters who believed one or more of the
fake news articles were 3.9 times more likely to defect
from the Democratic ticket in 2016, including abstention.
January 19, 2018 • It will combat
fake news by pushing up
news articles that come
from «high quality» sources, and pushing down the others.
A particularly telling detail (hat tip to Eric Worrall for this) revealed in an 11/23/16 The New Yorker
article was these quotes
from President Obama, on perhaps what the real goal of this whole new «
fake news» tactic is, portraying opposition to the certainty of man - caused global warming as
fake news fabrications:
The group created some
fake news based off of real
news articles submitted
from the crowd.
«Instant
Articles has been a disappointment,
news is being played down in the
news feed, and the interface makes it hard to separate the real
from the
fake,» he told TechNewsWorld.
Facebook launched a similar experiment in which it added context
from fact checkers to known
fake news articles.
An inalienable right for publishers to get paid whenever anybody links to their content, on social media or elsewhere, creates a perverse incentive structure:
From the perspective of the social network, spreading
fake news in the form of sponsored posts makes them money, whereas their users sharing legitimate
news articles costs them money.
As technology firms continue to try to bolster their defenses against
fake news, YouTube reportedly plans to introduce information
from Wikipedia
articles to combat the spread of conspiracy theory videos on the platform.
Will Related
Articles prevent users
from accessing
fake news?
Except that instead of Google showing you actual
articles from actual
news organizations that you might be interested in, you'll be seeing an onslaught of clickbait content marketing
articles and possibly even
fake news.
We now live in a near police - state like environment where when you take out in excess of five thousand dollars
from your own bank account your bank is obligated to report your action to the government, with cameras in unheard of places, and guns - talk in four out of five daily newscasts postings, and more documents involved in merely selling or buying a house, than anyone ever would have thought could be conjured up, and newspaper
articles press people warnings still telling the public that only sellers pay commission... A little like the American - coined term «
fake -
news?»