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Lead Stories: fact checks posts that Facebook flags but also use its own technology, called "Trendolizer", to detect trending hoaxes from hundreds of known fake news sites, satirical websites and prank generators. [220] [221] Media Bias/Fact Check. An American websites with focus on "political bias" and "factual reporting". [222] [223].
In 1994, [8] [9] [10] David and Barbara Mikkelson created an urban folklore web site that would become Snopes.com. Snopes was an early online encyclopedia focused on urban legends, which mainly presented search results of user discussions based at first on their contributions to the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban (AFU) where they'd been active. [11]
The quiz show scandals of the 1950s, wherein game shows were presented as legitimate contests despite being fixed or completely scripted. A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, an antisemitic fake document. Tamara Rand's prediction of the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, which was actually made after the fact (Randi 1982:329).
The network of nearly 4,800 fake accounts was attempting to build an audience when it was identified and eliminated by the tech company, which owns Facebook and Instagram.
Hoax Slayer originated as a Yahoo! group before the website was established. [6]Stories it has debunked include fake videos claiming to depict Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, [7] myths that the 2013 supermoon appeared bigger than it really did, [8] and a "Simon Ashton" hoax claiming that emails from Simon Ashton should not be opened because doing so would lead to your computer being hacked.
Parody Campbell's Facebook account makes fun of people who do not like the company's new ad
Even if you have not been hacked, shoring up your Facebook security is a good idea. Because many Facebook account compromises are caused by external apps, consider limiting the number of apps you use.
Fake news website that has published claims about the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 reappearing, a billionaire wanting to recruit 1,000 women to bear his children, and an Adam Sandler death hoax. [173] [174] [175] LiveMonitor livemonitor.co.za Fake news website in South Africa, per Africa Check, an IFCN signatory. [133] lockerdome.com