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This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Disinformation vs misinformation: How to spot fake news online. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Politics. See all. CNN.
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.
If enough users flagged a story, the story would be sent to a third-party organization to check its veracity. If it failed, it would lose news feed priority as well as have "disputed by 3rd party fact-checkers" as a caption. Facebook is also attempting to reduce their financial incentives in an attempt to decrease the amount of fake news.
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.
Miniver.org: the first fact-checking web in Spain, launched in 2017, with the purpose of debunking fake news. Accredited by Google as fact-checking organization. [142] Newtral: Spanish fact-checking organization founded by journalist Ana Pastor from LaSexta. Currently the official news verifier for Facebook Spain. [143] [144]
"Facebook, Google and Twitter have put policies into place to prevent the spread of vaccine misinformation; yet to date, all have failed to satisfactorily enforce those policies," reads the report.
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 ...
Many people use their Facebook News Feed to get news, despite Facebook not being considered a news site. [220] According to Craig McClain, over 66% of Facebook users obtain news from the site. [221] This, in combination with increased political polarization and filter bubbles, led to a tendency for readers to mainly read headlines. [222]