Initially he suggested Ted Cruz's father was involved in the assassination of JFK, perpetuated the myth of Obama not being born in the United States (which he later conceded) and repeatedly claimed climate change as a hoax all of which are the preserve
of fake news websites.
Not exact matches
At a similar panel in New York earlier in January that was dedicated to technology and media in the 2016 election, top journalists from legacy media organizations like the Associated Press and new media organizations like the data - journalism
website FiveThirtyEight picked over the carcass
of the election, pondering why data analysts misjudged Trump's electoral strength and how readers themselves often didn't necessarily possess the media literacy to sift through
fake and poorly reported
news.
In December, the company announced plans to address the issue
of fake news on its
website.
Those early concerns focused on «
fake news,» some
of it produced by profit - hungry
websites simply looking to generate clicks.
The poll also finds that a large majority
of the public (86 %) believe that online
news websites also report
fake news, which is up slightly from 80 % in March 2017.
Despite how it sounds, in today's age
of fake news and
fake accounts,
websites that collect more identifiable information about their users are better - positioned to protect identities and even solve the widespread problems
of spam bot and illegitimate user accounts.
The president himself has been a longtime supporter
of conspiracy theories often espoused by Alex Jones on InfoWars, a far - right
website that deliberately spreads propaganda and disinformation masked as real
news, or as the president would actually call it,
fake news.
Social media footsoldiers
of the ruling New Patriotic Party government have, in the past few days been circulating a story from a
fake news website which alleges that the former Chief
of Staff has been banned from travelling to seven western countries because
of his involvement in visa racketeering while he was the Chief
of Staff.
Fake news / conspiracy theory often centers on anti-governance and dovetails with ideological views of Trump and right - wing voters meaning they are more susceptible to considering fake news websites as legitim
Fake news / conspiracy theory often centers on anti-governance and dovetails with ideological views
of Trump and right - wing voters meaning they are more susceptible to considering
fake news websites as legitim
fake news websites as legitimate.
To complicate these findings, the recent proliferation
of fake news and phony
websites is making research for short - term or long - term projects in any academic discipline much more difficult.
The proliferation
of «
fake news»
websites and social media «bots» means that students must sharpen their ability to evaluate documents.
Another sign that ebook sales are down * Penguin drops Halperin *
Fake news website shut down * Porn pirates * Disney accused
of stealing «Pirates
of the Caribbean»...
While social media and other
websites are in part responsible for the rise in
fake news and do need to exercise more control, it is important to know we already have plenty
of legal remedies available in Canada to deal adequately with authors
of fake news.
If it's not «
fake news» calling institutions into question, it's the threat
of the internet, where billions
of people have ditched paying for a paper or magazine at the newsstand in favor
of a free
website.
And then advertise or target them with blogs or
websites or various — what everyone now calls
fake news — so that they start seeing all
of these ideas, or all
of these stories around them in their digital environment.
Another Buzzfeed investigation this fall found that a group
of young Macedonian publishers were running huge networks
of popular Facebook pages filled with
fake conservative
news, targeted at Trump supporters in the US on
websites such as TrumpVision365.com, USConservativeToday.com, and USADailyPolitics.com.
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