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- Consider the source. In recent months, we’ve fact-checked fake news from abcnews.com.co (not the actual URL for ABC News), WTOE 5 News (whose “about” page says it’s “a fantasy news website”), and the Boston Tribune (whose “contact us” page lists only a gmail address).
- Read beyond the headline. If a provocative headline drew your attention, read a little further before you decide to pass along the shocking information.
- Check the author. Another tell-tale sign of a fake story is often the byline. The pledge of allegiance story on abcnews.com.co was supposedly written by “Jimmy Rustling.”
- What’s the support? Many times these bogus stories will cite official — or official-sounding — sources, but once you look into it, the source doesn’t back up the claim.
May 24, 2024 · April 30, 2024. Protesters against the war in Gaza raised three Palestinian flags on the Harvard University campus on April 27. Social media posts misleadingly claimed the university “replaced ...
Dec 5, 2016 · Fake news stories can have real-life consequences. On Sunday, police said a man with a rifle who claimed to be "self-investigating" a baseless online conspiracy theory entered a...
- Wynne Davis
- What Is The Difference Between Disinformation and Misinformation?
- What Does Disinformation Look like?
- What Does Misinformation Look like?
- What Kinds of Misinformation and Disinformation Are Out there?
- Fabricated Content
- Manipulated Content
- Imposter Content
- Misleading Content
- False Context of Connection
- Satire and Parody
The U.K. government has very useful definitionsof both terms. Here, we've simplified those definitions to make them easier to understand. Disinformationis the deliberate creation and/or sharing of false information in order to mislead. Misinformationis the act of sharing information without realizing it's wrong.
Kaleigh Rogers, CBC's senior reporter covering disinformation, investigated claimsmade in a blog post about Justin Trudeau that circulated widely on social media. The post claimed Justin Trudeau's government sent $465 million in foreign aid to Afghanistan, only to see it "disappear." Rogers found that the figure of $465 million is partly correct — ...
Radio-Canada's disinformation reporter Jeff Yates was struckby how popular a story from CBC P.E.I. was on Facebook. The story was about a new law in the province that punishes drivers who illegally pass school buses by suspending their drivers' licences for a period of time. The story was picked up on social media and posted to many pages in the Un...
The U.K. Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee suggested some useful definitionsfor the kinds of fake content you're likely to see online: • Fabricated content: completely false content. • Manipulated content: content that includes distortions of genuine information or imagery — a headline, for example, that is made more sensatio...
These are the stories, images or websites that are totally fake. These stories may come from unknown outlets or social media accounts that aren't well-known, or don't have a lot of followers. The websites themselves may try to appear as if they're legitimate. Radio-Canada's Jeff Yates discovered a group of websitesthat looked like English-language,...
Recently, The Tyee debunkedan ad circulating online that appeared to show NDP leader Jagmeet Singh standing in front of a $5.5 million mansion. The headline on the ad said, "Jagmeet Singh Shows off His New Mansion." The photo of Singh was a real photo taken by a Reuters photographer. The house shown in the photo is a real mansion available for rent...
An example of this type of contentwould be a story that appears to come from a reputable online news source. The story might have the correct branding and colours but still seem slightly 'off', or the headline might be something that the real outlet would never publish. One giveaway might be the URL — if it's incorrect, has extra letters or numbers...
Online content can become misleading when an opinion piece is circulated online as objective reporting, when one element of a story is blown out of proportion to attract clicks, or when an entire story is presented by a special interest group as proving or disproving something — when it actually might not do anything of the sort. Jeff Yates investi...
This commonly happens during a natural disaster — when, for example, photos circulate purporting to show a terrible flood, while the images themselves might not be from the actual event mentioned, the same location, the same year or even the same continent. The origins of these images are often easy to track through reverse-image searches — but the...
Stories written as satire or parody are sometimes passed around as if they're true. The American satirical news outlet The Onion fools people regularly. Jack Warner, the former vice president of FIFA, famously cited an Onion storyin his defence when he was indicted on corruption charges in the U.S. in 2015. In video posted to his Facebook page, War...
Fake news stories. Fake news can easily proliferate, particularly in times of political turbulence and instability. Take a look at the following examples of fake news: Putting a Viral Video Clip of Biden in Context: A 10-second clip of Joe Biden showed him delivering a quote devoid of the full context, which construed his meaning.
- Kimberly Burton
- 2017
Dec 2, 2016 · Fake news websites and stories are flooding the internet. Be careful out there. Here are some to keep an eye out for.
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Apr 20, 2017 · We’ve broken the websites on our list down into four broad categories, marked by specific aims and methods for generating or sharing fake news. Let’s take a closer look at all four and how ...
