This week on Vergecast, Nilay, Paul, and Dieter give an overview of these products along with the topic of the week (or the month, or maybe the year): the problem of social media dealing
with fake news articles that go viral.
Not exact matches
But as Lewis» samples show, the scammers are circumventing this prohibition
with ease — using Lewis» image to drive unwitting clicks to a secondary offsite layer of
fake news articles that directly push people towards crypto scams.
The political profiles formed by gleaning Facebook user information would target them
with intentionally
fake news articles and advertisements.
And the narrative not only resonated
with journalists but also citizens who suddenly started googling for
fake news (see Fig. 1) and found dozens of
news articles that were painting a dark picture: not only are we living in a post-truth world, but our society is also fragmented into numerous echo chambers in which
fake news is shared freely, thus eroding our society's basis.
without mentioning or linking my car crash story (for obvious reasons) he denounces my reporting as «a
fake news story» (I suppose to link my
article with Donald Trump?)
One of the first studies on
fake news exposure combined a
fake news database of 156
articles with a national survey of Americans, and estimated that the average adult was exposed to just one or a few
fake news articles before the election.
Stephen Woerner, a computer science senior, is on one of the teams charged
with creating a system that detects
fake news articles.
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?
It's filled
with fake news and
fake articles written by non existent people.
Before heading out to one of our recent forays, I caught up on the
news on the well known climate blog, «Watts Up
With That» and read the 10/39/17 article, How Google and MSM Use «Fact Checkers» to Flood Us with Fake Claims by Leo Goldst
With That» and read the 10/39/17
article, How Google and MSM Use «Fact Checkers» to Flood Us
with Fake Claims by Leo Goldst
with Fake Claims by Leo Goldstein.
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.
But after being criticized for allowing
fake news to proliferate during the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook began working
with third - party fact checkers to append warnings to disputed
articles.
Almost exactly one year ago, Facebook implemented several changes to fight
fake news, including easier steps to report
articles, partnerships
with fact - checking organizations and features, like Disputed Flags, that alert people when they are about to read or share
articles that have identified by fact - checkers as
fake news.
«They took zero journalistic approach to their reporting,» Ogden said, «which is funny because they tout themselves as «truth journalism» and are the first to attack mass media, calling
articles they don't agree
with «
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?»