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Dec 17, 2020 · The weirdest, funniest, news stories of 2020, from the crazy Alaskan news anchor to Rudy Giuliani melting, literally and figuratively.
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has produced a how to spot fake news infographic with eight simple steps you can use to verify a given news piece in front of you.
From politicians calling for fake news to be banned, to others suggesting they should "weaponise" it, the public's ability to tell fact from fiction is increasingly contested. Here are seven stories that show how fake news shaped this year.
Many popular fake news websites like ABCnews.com.co attempted to impersonate a legitimate U.S. news publication, relying on readers not actually checking the address they typed or clicked on. They exploited common misspellings, slight misphrasings and abuse of top-level domains such as .com.co as opposed to .com.
Sep 29, 2021 · Based on an extensive review of relevant literature (i.e., political journalism and communication, computational linguistics), we take stock of existing knowledge and present an overview of the structural characteristics that are indicative of intentionally deceptive information.
- Alyt Damstra, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Elena Broda, Elina Lindgren, Jesper Strömbäck, Yariv Tsfati, Rens...
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Jan 23, 2020 · By January 23, 2020. A couple of days before Christmas, a fabricated story about a Donald Trump rally went viral on Facebook. Published by AJUAnews.com, the article claimed a Trump rally in...
Jul 22, 2023 · The Jan. 6 insurrection, which sought to overturn a democratic election and dismiss the will of American voters, was spurred by disinformation about the results of the 2020 presidential election.
