Sentences with phrase «most fake news stories»

Like most fake news stories, it wasn't based on any real events of facts, but is a work of complete fiction meant to fool readers in order to generate clicks and social media shares.

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Rather than just being «fake news,» many of the most - shared stories in this right - wing ecosystem «can more accurately be understood as disinformation,» the study says.

The issue of blatantly false (or at least extremely embellished) news stories has gotten so bad, that researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Education call it «a threat to democracy» after a «dismaying» study found that most American students can't tell the difference between which headlines are real and which ones are fake.

Most people don't write well, or hate to write or are just to busy and / or distracted to take the time to write business letters, instruction manuals, a truly good novel, copy that gets results, news stories fake or otherwise, tech manuals, spec sheets, non-fiction books on any subject, erotica, science fiction stories and books, science article, magazine articles and blog posts by the millions.

It would be hugely ironic if — in a world where everyone in the first world is a micro-journalist, political positioning is more story - telling than spin, and where the most powerful people in the world are slamming «fake news» — the fall guys are the professional news - writers.

It's most likely fake if trustworthy news sites aren't carrying the story.

In fact, the most popular fake news stories were more widely shared on Facebook than the most popular mainstream news stories.