I’ve accidentally chronicled the decline of journalism in this blog, with occasional posts over the last 10 years. Check out the categoryjournalismhere and you’ll see what I mean. Now, suddenly, so-called fake news is a big issue. Is that a surprise? We’ve severely discounted the trad...
In the article, the fake news phenomenon is studied in the following aspects: essence and uses, historical and contemporary context, media effect, methods of discern. Popular examples in the social media are analyzed and the means of fight against fake news, trolls and clickbaitKalina Lukova...
All the (Fake) News That's Fit to Tweet: Selective Exposure and the Hostile Media Effect Among Post-Millennials 喜欢 0 阅读量: 24 摘要: Just as the emergence of the Internet moved communication researchers to adjust traditional theories to account for changing news consumption habits, the rise...
The dynamics and influence of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election remains to be clarified. Here, we use a dataset of 171 million tweets in the five months preceding the election day to identify 30 million tweets, from 2.2 millio
Online social networks (OSNs) are rapidly growing and have become a huge source of all kinds of global and local news for millions of users. However, OSNs
The UK Parliament's Digital, Media, Sports and Culture committee made the recommendations in a report about fake news and its effect on Brexit that was meant to be published on Sunday and given to news organizations under embargo. But Dominic Cummings, the campaign director of the Vote Leave ...
Fake news refers to bias in the media that is so misleading that it is actually false. It can also include assertions of a non-political nature that seem believable but are untrue. It often incorporates the use of questionable or unnamed (and most often, non-existent) "anonymous sources" ...
Fake news uses fictional or even fake pictures to mislead readers and spread quickly (Allcott and Gentzkow, 2017, Rubin et al., 2016). The spread of fake news may cause massive negative effects, sometimes affecting or manipulating major public events. The 2016 United States presidential election...
It is important to note, however, that the effect of political concordance is typically much smaller than that of the actual veracity of the news [20,21,26]. In other words, true but politically discordant news is typically believed much more than false but politically concordant news – ...
Based on US and British regulations in force, this article offers an overview of legislation of two Common Law countries in the area of modern forms of law infringements focusing on the notions of revenge porn and fake porn. The first part contains definitions and descriptions of the terms ‘...