Fake news, disinformation and misinformation have become such a scourge that Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, is quoted to have said (making an implicit reference to the COVID-19 pandemic) “Misinformation is worse than an epidemic: It spreads ...
This edited volume covers a hot topic in social network analysis in the name of fake news. Included is coverage of the arguably lessened quality of social media causing multiple outlets for misinformation. Misinformation is produced for a variety of pu
FAKE newsSOCIAL mediaMEDIA consumptionPERSONALITYDEVELOPED countriesTRUSTThe widespread dissemination of misinformation on social media is a serious threat to global health. To a large extent, it is still unclear who actually shares health-related misinformation deliberately and a...
Misinformation and disinformation, often in the form of fake news disseminated on social media, are proliferating in the "post-truth" era, with profound implications for public and policy discourse, political accountability and integrity, elections and governance. The United States is grappling with ...
While social media provides space for news to spread, it can also become a hotbed of misinformation. Following the 2016 presidential election in the United States, the topic of fake news has been discussed extensively by policymakers and popular news media, but insufficiently examined empirically. ...
特朗普总统2017年初开始喷fake news,常常将这个词用来作为口头功击的武器,用来贬低他不认同的新闻报道。 That obscured the earlier use of fake news for misinformation or disinformation spread online, as was seen on social media during the 2016 presidential campaign.” ...
When looking at what constitutes “fake news” and how it gets shared onsocial media, there are two kinds of false information to be aware of—misinformation and disinformation. Researchers at Indiana University found thesetwo types of information often go viralbecause “information overload and use...
and television stations, marking the beginning of misinformation in news (Aggarwal et al.,2012; Kim & Dennis,2019; Kim et al.,2019; Knight & Tsoukas,2019; Manski,1993; Preti & Miotto,2011; Roozenbeek & van der Linden,2019). With the emergence of multimedia corporations, the content of ...
Rice University researchers have discovered a more efficient way for social media companies to keep misinformation from spreading online using probabilistic filters trained with artificial intelligence.
Overall, 1 in 3 respondent expressed concerns over misinformation as the key challenge, with higher prevalence among respondents from the USA (41%) than UK (35%) and Australia (32%), χ2(2)=8.5, p=0.015. While some thought social media had facilitated social connections, others said that...