Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Globe asks, “Are you ready for a war on fake news?” In his article he talks about how Facebook, Google, and Twitter are beginning efforts to clean up the fake news — the fake news that may have swung the election. But he reminds us that they could have done […]
New York Times reports that foreign countries have already faced fake-news problems from Facebook and other social-media sites.
The Washington Post, a real newspaper, interviews one of the most prolific fake-news creators about his work and his influence. In the interview, he admits that he may have swung the election to Trump. It just keeps getting weirder by the minute… Reality TV like…
President Obama, speaking in Germany while hanging with Angela Merkel, commented that the falsehoods on social media have the potential of breaking down democracy. See article from CNET here. Obama: “If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not and particularly in an age of social media where so many people […]
According to Business Insider, four students have solved Facebook’s fake news problem — and it only took them 36 hours. Thus, making Facebook’s CEO’s claim that there are technical barriers to dealing with fake news somewhat less defensible.
CNET article on fake news. Does the Internet have a Fake News Problem?
BuzzFeed reports that on Facebook (where 44% of Americans get their news), toward the end of the recent election, MORE PEOPLE were engaged with fake news than with real news. Yes. This is horrifying! Data and Graph from BuzzFeed.
CNN reports that Fake News Sources are beginning to hurt U.S. Corporations for things they did NOT even do. For example, Pepsi is being boycotted for a comment their CEO never made! Maybe now that our money-rich corporations are being hit with misinformation and fake news — they’ll jump into action to put an end […]
After reading a great interview with Tim Wu on Vox, author of the recently published book The Attention Merchants, it got me thinking about how the digital-age forces impacting human attention may be partly responsible for the power of lies and misinformation to seep into our long-term-memory repository of beliefs. First, some quotes from that […]
Matt Masur offers an interesting take on the bad information floating around the internet. But this one is true. Doh!