These announcements come after many companies in Silicon Valley have fallen under a barrage of criticism from users who say the companies created systems
where fake news stories spread more easily than factual reports.
Not exact matches
When you use the term
fake news, does it only apply to
stories where the facts are wrong or does it also apply to how
news outlets make editorial decisions about what they choose to report?
In 2016, Techonomy is where Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg famously said fake news stories on Facebook influencing the...
His tweet came hours after Trump addressed a conservative conference
where he wailed on the media about reporting
fake news and the use of unnamed sources in
stories.
Those
fake news stories were written as clickbait, designed to draw readers to
fake -
news sites,
where the Balkan teens made money by selling ads.
Unlike
fake news stories that someone writes and then tries to spread virally through social media, artificial reviews work only if they are manufactured in volume and posted to sites
where a particular item is sold or advertised.
In our digital world,
where anyone with a little know - how can post unverified
stories online and frame them as fact, when solid web design can make an advertisement seem like an article, and the question of what is and what is not «
fake news» seems to come up on a daily basis, how do young people — «digital natives» — vet all the information in front of them?
From false
stories causing havoc, all the way to a doctored photo twisting the truth; no matter
where untruthful
stories sit on the spectrum of lies,
fake news in the past has ruined people's lives.
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.
Bill Shorten could be the subject of a
fake 1 April
news story where he saw sense and realised he needed to put the interests of the ALP first, rather than his own, and had decided to make way for Tanya Plibersek to become Australia's second female prime minister, with Anthony Albanese to become Deputy PM, but again, all of that is yet to be imagined for future 1 April
stories to come.