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Now 8 News Now8News.com Started in 2015, this fake news website is also designed to look like a local television outlet. Several of the website's fake stories have successfully spread on social media. Has the same IP address as Action News 3. [25] [316] [317] [312] [308] [309] TheRacketReport.com TheRacketReport.com Per PolitiFact.
Fake news websites played a large part in the online news community during the election, reinforced by extreme exposure on Facebook and Google. [35] Approximately 115 pro-Trump fake stories were shared on Facebook a total of 30 million times, and 41 pro-Clinton fake stories shared a total of 7.6 million times.
Whether you’re scrolling past your high school friends on Facebook or swiping through the latest dance crazes on TikTok, you’re bound to see some outrageous and false claims about the election.
Fake news website in South Africa, per Africa Check, an IFCN signatory. [133] Naha Daily nahadaily.com Defunct This fake news website is now defunct, and was active in a span of five months with fake news articles, including a fake quote by Michael Kors. [83] Nation.com.pk Nation.com.pk Per PolitiFact. [1] National Insider Politics
Some of the misinformation ads the Elon Musk-baked group has run on Facebook. Facebook The group has spent more than $680,000 on ads since launching last month, with more than $350,000 spent last ...
[276] [277] [279] A 2019 study in the journal Science, which examined dissemination of fake news articles on Facebook in the 2016 election, found that sharing of fake news articles on Facebook was "relatively rare", conservatives were more likely than liberals or moderates to share fake news, and there is a "strong age effect", whereby ...
Roundcheck (https://roundcheck.com.ng/): is a youth-led factchecking organization in Nigeria combating misinformation and disinformation and promoting media literacy. One of their objectives is integrating young people into factchecking to help curb the spread of information disorder.
The term fake news became popularized with the 2016 United States presidential election, causing concern among some that online media platforms were especially susceptible to disseminating disinformation and misinformation. [9] Fake news articles tend to come from either satirical news websites or from websites with an incentive to propagate ...