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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 March 2025. For satirical news, see List of satirical news websites. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely ...
Be skeptical of headlines: False news stories often feature eye-catching, all-caps headlines with exclamation points. If the shocking claims sound too outrageous to be true, they probably are.
BuzzFeed News found that on Facebook during the last three months of the election, fake news stories received more attention than real news stories. It was discovered that the top twenty fake news stories had 8,711,000 shares, reactions, and comments, while the top twenty real news stories were only shared, commented on, and reacted to ...
Has a focus on current news events. [223] PolitiFact: service of the Tampa Bay Times created in August 2007, uses the "Truth-o-Meter" to rank the amount of truth in public persons' statements. 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner. [224] Snopes: focuses on, but is not limited to, validating and debunking urban legends and other stories in American popular ...
The vagueness of this law means that satirists, opinion writers, and journalists who make errors could face persecution. The law also makes it illegal to share fake news stories. In one instance, a Danish man and Malaysian citizen were arrested for posting false news stories online and were sentenced to serve a month in jail. [360]
Despite the story's debunking, some commenters on Carter's page still refuse to let it go. " Do not gaslight yourself," one posted. "These companies do these types of things.
Google-owned YouTube will stop removing false claims of widespread election fraud in the 2020 presidential race, the video platform announced on Friday.
In 1762, the Grand Assembly of Virginia enacted the following law to punish "divulgers of false news.". Be it enacted, That what person or persons soever shall forge and divulge such false reports, tending to the trouble of the country, shall be, by next Justice of the Peace, sent for, and bound over to the next County Court, where, if he produce not the author, he shall be fined two thousand ...