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Dec 22, 2020 · Media. America’s growing fake news problem, in one chart. Americans consumed twice as much dubious news in 2020 as they did in 2019. By Emily Stewart emily.stewart@vox.com Dec 22, 2020,...
- Michael Brown and The Ferguson Riots
- Don’T Believe Everything You Read
- False Narratives and 2020 Riots
- What Does This Mean For You?
- Takeaway
Take the Michael Brown case, for instance. In 2014, things looked very different than they do today. We had our first black president still in office. However, a police shooting of an unarmed man – white police officer, black man – caused riots to break out in Ferguson, MO. The movement, “hands up, don’t shoot,” was begun. Not only have we heard th...
Slanted media accounts of incidents are one thing, and they can be damaging enough. Still, Americans need to understand that the internet itself has a way of amplifying sensation over an event. A study published earlier this yearshowed that internet robots (programmed accounts not held by real people) appear to be designed to be attracted to the mo...
It was all bad enough before this summer. But since the death of George Floyd, some of the rioting has continued over fake news reports spread through social media. Author Jonathan Swift said, “Falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it.” Swift lived and died before the internet was ever conceptualized. Last weekend, hundreds of looters d...
One thing it means for ordinary citizens is police departments now have to spend limited resources fighting false information online rather than protecting and serving the community. Citizens are less safe with fewer police. The other take away for anyone is that most media and social media is ratings or earnings-driven rather than fact-driven. The...
The other way fake news can have an adverse effect is that you could end up being arrested and facing charges for your actions based on a false or inflated story, especially if a protest you attend involves illegal activity. In Michigan, being convicted of rioting and inciting to riot are felony offenses. The offenses are punishable by not more tha...
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Feb 1, 2021 · 1:07. A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated...
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...
Apr 3, 2020 · 3 April 2020. By Jack Goodman, BBC Monitoring & Trending,BBC Reality Check. BBC. We've all been there. A coronavirus post that could be true and sounds about right, but how do we know it's...
Jun 2, 2020 · We found that fake news exposure was associated with a decline in mainstream media trust among respondents. Our results also showed that fake news exposure was associated with an overall increase in political trust, and especially trust in congress and the justice system.
Oct 26, 2020 · Projects seek to understand, and block, spread of disinformation. 26 Oct 2020. By Greg Miller. SÉBASTIEN THIBAULT. Share: It started with a tweet from a conservative media personality, accompanied by photos, claiming that more than 1000 mail-in ballots had been discovered in a dumpster in Sonoma county in California.
