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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.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
This fake news website mostly consists of celebrity gossip and death hoaxes, but a few of its other stories were disseminated on social media. When the site was up it said that it was "a combination of real shocking news and satire news" and that articles were for "entertainment and satirical purposes" only. [9] [9] [25] News Hound news-hound ...
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
The White House’s pushback on the “cheap fake” videos come after months of Democrats warning about the dangers of AI-generated election content, but so far the government has not put new ...
China government leaders meeting in Wuzhen at the third World Internet Conference in November 2016 said fake news in the U.S. election justified adding more curbs to free and open use of the Internet. [120]
During the course of the election, they produced over 400 notes and 50 videos documenting false claims and suspect sites, and tracked instances where fake news went viral. [193] Verificado.mx received 5.4 million visits during the election, with its partner organizations registering millions more.
In June 2019, the BBC convened the Trusted News Summit, bringing together leaders of many of the world's largest news and social media companies. [3] The summit addressed concerns regarding online misinformation surrounding the 2019 Indian general election, which reportedly attracted systematic attempts to spread misinformation and "fake news" through social media.