Fake News Briefs: Media distortions

The data spanned , when Twitter began, to The study is unsettling reading, especially in light of what has so far emerged from US intelligence agencies, congressional inquiries and the special prosecutor Robert Mueller about use of social media to distort the presidential election.

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Apart from effects on elections and referendums, fake news in social media can assist hate speech to turn into communal violence more quickly. A cascade starts with a Twitter user making an assertion about a topic — with words, images or links — and continues in an unbroken chain of retweets.

The researchers analysed cascades about news stories that six fact-checking organisations agreed were true or agreed were false.

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False political news reached more people faster and went deeper into their networks than any other category of false information. The study compared the emotional content of replies to true and false rumours by using about 32, Twitter hashtags and a lexicon of about , English words that associate with eight basic emotions: Calling for more effort to identify the factors in human judgment that spread true and false news, including interviews with users, surveys, lab experiments and neuroimaging, the paper points to some obvious reasons to look deeper.

Two features of this study, besides its published results, are heartening. Artificial intelligence was successfully deployed to good effect, for example, a bot-detection algorithm. And Twitter provided access to its data, some funding, and shared its expertise. The researchers have conditionally offered to share their dataset. More openness by the social media giants and greater collaboration by them with suitably qualified partners in tackling the problem of fake news is essential.

Although Donald Trump may have appropriated the term in a whole new way, the term itself has been in use for many years. The first documented uses of the term occurred in the s, according to Merriam Webster [3].

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The speed at which it is spread and the magnitude of its influence places it in a different category from its historical cousins. There are three unique parts to modern fake news that make it different from older varieties of intentionally exaggerated or false reporting: Fake news is created and spread by either those with ideological interests, such as Russian agents, or computer-savvy individuals looking to make some money, like Macedonian teenagers and certain suburban Americans.

It often involves knowing distortion and deception of the news source , not just the content.

First, social media act as news aggregators that are "source-agnostic. Second, many news stories get conveyed to people on social media via their friends or people they follow, along with their implicit or explicit endorsement of the story such as a share, like, or retweet. These tacit recommendations make people more accepting of the messages they get.

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False stories have often appeared to come from family and friends. Skip to main content. Who Fake news is created and spread by either those with ideological interests, such as Russian agents, or computer-savvy individuals looking to make some money, like Macedonian teenagers and certain suburban Americans. What Source and video: