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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 ...
The application of social network theory to social media provides useful insights into the spread of misinformation. For example, tightly connected networks may be used to represent echo chambers . This theory is useful for devising countermeasures to misinformation on a social media platform level, such as down ranking or removing posts and ...
Social media platforms allow for easy spread of misinformation. [135] The specific reasons why misinformation spreads through social media so easily remain unknown. [137] Agent-based models and other computational models have been used by researchers to explain how false beliefs spread through networks.
Misinformation refers to false or inaccurate information shared unintentionally—simply getting the facts wrong. Disinformation , on the other hand, involves deliberately spreading false ...
Conspiracy theories used to be confined to dark corners of the internet. Now, they muddy conversations around news events on mainstream social media platforms.
Fake news is often spread through the use of fake news websites, which, in order to gain credibility, specialize in creating attention-grabbing news, which often impersonate well-known news sources. [53] [54] [55] Jestin Coler, who said he does it for "fun", [23] has indicated that he earned US$10,000 per month from advertising on his fake news ...
Fact-checking or debunking a statement or belief can be an effective way to counter falsehoods if it’s done by providing details on why the misinformation was incorrect. But it only goes so far.
The Shorenstein Center at Harvard University defines disinformation research as an academic field that studies "the spread and impacts of misinformation, disinformation, and media manipulation," including "how it spreads through online and offline channels, and why people are susceptible to believing bad information, and successful strategies for mitigating its impact". [23]