…two commenters who shared links to articles that debunked the fake news story. The other experimental group saw comments where “two individual posters claimed the information about genetically modified mosquitoes…
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…restricted access to their Wall, and 71% limited access to their news feed. The researchers found that “some students fear that despite restricting their photo visibility to ‘only friends,’ they…
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…including spam bots, fake antivirus programs, information-stealing trojans, denial-of-service bots and adware. In an analysis of 313,791 binaries, the study was able to identify and learn from 12 of the…
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…many newspapers and magazines have been downsizing their newsrooms, investments in video, in particular, have been growing. For example, in 2014 the New York Times doubled the size of its…
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…the beginning warned Americans that the virus was real and they had to be careful. Whereas Hannity said at the beginning that it was a hoax and fake news and…
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…notices, extracted from the Retraction Watch database. To measure how much attention the papers received — before and after their retractions — from news outlets, social media and other…
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…that journalists can play a role as well. “I think journalists have an absolutely crucial role, particularly in this era of ‘fake news,’” Haines said. “Journalists have a very important…
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…win, Trump claimed that he lost the popular vote due to 3 million or more fake votes. Fears about electoral fraud resonate broadly. A September 2016 Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 46…
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…news about the Royal Family. But for 10 weeks in late 2007 and early 2008, hundreds of news organizations agreed to embargo a big story: Prince Harry had been deployed…
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…their news story to coverage from other news outlets. Albarracín wrote in her e-mail that good source checkers would have discovered that the study on GMOs mentioned in one of…
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