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Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire.Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks, typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
In the abstract theory of social networks and reputation systems, this is known as a Sybil attack. [10] A sockpuppet-like use of deceptive fake identities is used in stealth marketing. The stealth marketer creates one or more pseudonymous accounts, each claiming to be a different enthusiastic supporter of the sponsor's product, book or ideology ...
A phony or look-alike link may be a warning sign of false news. Many false news sites mimic authentic news sources by making small changes to the link
Deepfakes (a portmanteau of ' deep learning ' and ' fake ' [1]) are images, videos, or audio which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence tools, and which may depict real or non-existent people. They are a type of synthetic media [2] and modern form of a Media prank.
There are concerns that deepfake technology can be used to create fake news and misleading, counterfeit videos. Here is a primer on deepfakes – what it is, how it works, and how it can be detected.
In December Facebook and Twitter disabled a global network of 900 pages, groups and accounts sending pro-Trump messages. The fake news accounts managed to avoid detection as being inauthentic, and they used photos generated with the aid of artificial intelligence. The campaign was based in the U.S. and Vietnam.
Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the U ...
With the popularity of social media, individuals can easily access fake news and disinformation. The rapid spread of false stories on social media during the 2012 elections in Italy has been documented, as has diffusion of false stories on Facebook during the 2016 US election campaign. [44] Fake news has the tendency to become viral among the ...