Great Washington Post story by Terrence McCoy on how the fake-news folks do it and why they do it (money!). McCoy follows the work of two twenty-somethings who write fake news stories, mostly for the money, but it seems partly because after voting for Obama twice and being raised in liberal families, the economy has […]
John Herrman writing in The New York Times talks about fake news in relationship to real news. Specifically he says: [The attention devoted to fake news] misunderstands a new media world in which every story, and source, is at risk of being discredited, not by argument but by sheer force. Media companies have spent years […]
Here is a short clip from Bloomberg News of Mark Zuckerberg’s original response to claims that fake news on Facebook may have tilted the election. He is not too convincing. Also, and I’m not a regular viewer of Zuckerberg’s public appearances, but he looks rather uncomfortable, bordering on defensive — even though the interviewer David […]
After a week of blistering criticism of Facebook’s fake-news problem, Mark Zuckerberg last night posted options Facebook was considering to diminish the threat. See article about this from Washington Post…
Yochi Dreazen and Zack Beauchamp of Vox just published an expose on General Michael Flynn’s penchant to retweet fake news stories. See their evidence and reflections here.
Jarvis and Borthwick, media experts, offer 15 suggestions for how to fix fake news.
The Washington Post has created a video to help us tell fake news from real news. Hint: It’s not as easy as you think!
Washington Post article on how fake-news websites make money. And here’s how this might benefit Facebook: “Google has more of an incentive to make information reliable,” Carroll noted, because Google’s business is based on providing accurate information to people who are looking for it. Facebook, though, “is about attention, not so much intention.” It’s generally […]
This past Monday, Melissa Zimdars, assistant professor of communication and media at Merrimack College, created a list of fake news sites for her students. She also posted it to the web, where it proceeded to go viral. Today, in the Washington Post, she wrote that fake news stories are only part of the problem. […]
Do you remember when you played the telephone game as a kid. You had 12 kids sitting around the table at a birthday party. The first kid whispered a sentence into the next kid’s ear, “The white rhinoceros ate the tulips at Mrs. Dilley’s general store.” The second kid than whispered the sentence into the […]