Fake news podem ser muito convincentes e difíceis de desmascarar. E a prevalência da desinformação online dificulta diferenciar o genuíno do falso. Embora, muitas vezes, as fake news sejam inofensivas e divertidas, também podem ser usadas para influenciar a opinião pública, ou mesm...
In this modern era, misleading news is easily transmitted and spread through different social media platforms and has become a big threat to the reliability of the news. Because of the growth of online social media, fake information does have a significant impact on society. Twitter is one of...
Twitter officials are meeting with lawmakers in Washington about how accounts posing as legitimate news sites spread false information after the Florida high school massacre. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey acknowledges changes are needed on the social media pla
Let there be no alternative facts aboutKanye West, please. The rapper and Yeezy apparel company founderreturned to Twitterearlier this month after a year-long hiatus and went on a fresh tweeting spree on Wednesday to debunk what he says is "fake news" about himself. "There's been a lot ...
The growth of social media has revolutionized the way people access information. Although platforms like Facebook and Twitter allow for a quicker, wider and less restricted access to information, they also consist of a breeding ground for the disseminati
Twitter said Friday it shut down thousands of accounts worldwide for spreading misinformation, including some artificially amplifying pro-Saudi messaging as part of a regional propaganda war.
While NoMoreFakeNews.com covers a wide range of conspiracy theories at this time, they are focused on promoting disinformation regarding Covid-19 and vaccines. For example, the articleVaccine shedding spreads disaster to unvaccinated pregnant women?Promotes the false claim that the vaccinated shed the...
Though Facebook is often singled out, in the wake of the 2016 election, as a hotbed of misinformation, misleading news stories, and outright hoaxes, Twitter has its own “fake-news” problem. Users can buy bot accounts for just a few hundred dollars, using them to boost their following ...
However, due to the nature of Twitter, tweets usually are catchy posts without much detail. This nature makes it easier for users to go through lots of news and easily share it in no time. The spreading of misinformation mostly comes from social media, as usually users do not fact-check ...
News travels fast, especially when it's wrong An analysis of posts on Twitter by three million people between 2006 and 2017 shows that fake news spreads significantly more than the truth on social media. Soroush Vosoughi at the Massachusetts Institute