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Dec 22, 2020 · Engagement with the top 100 US news sources (meaning likes, shares, and comments on Facebook and Twitter) went from 8.6 billion reactions to 16.3 billion reactions between 2019 and 2020.
Nov 18, 2022 · Introduction. In the last months of 1919, a year in which a pandemic had killed hundreds of thousands and the nation’s cities had been marred by racial pogroms and mob violence, Walter Lippmann reflected on the state of the American public sphere. “ [A] nation,” he complained, “easily acts like a crowd. Under the influence of headlines ...
Dec 23, 2019 · This year’s volume of work, “Censored 2020: Through The Looking Glass,” includes the project’s list of the top 25 censored stories from 2018 and 2019 and more about the struggle to bring...
Dec 31, 2020 · Debunked in 2020: Conspiracies and fake news surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic. With Covid-19 dominating the news in 2020, numerous examples of fake and misleading images have emerged...
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.
May 7, 2018 · Whether it's “fake news” fabrications like those promulgated by the Sons of Liberty or “fake news” stories that in reality break down to a difference of opinion, the tradeoffs of having a ...
Jun 2, 2020 · In this work, fake news is defined as fabricated information that has the format of news content but not the editorial standards and practices of legitimate journalism (Lazer et al, 2018). Consumption of fake news makes people more likely to adopt various political misperceptions (Guess et al., 2020) that can affect their subsequent behavior ...
