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I Found Nicole Mincey, Trump’s Biggest Twitter Fan. She Isn’t a Bot, But She Has a Ton of Secrets.
There’s a real person behind the pro-Trump account thanked by the president—but her online name, her photo, and her 146,000 followers are all lies.
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Inside the Next Fake News War
One morning in November, Simon Hegelich, a professor of political science at the Technical University of Munich, was surprised to get an urgent invitation from the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who wanted to hear more about his research on the manipulation of voter sentiment. Less than two weeks earlier, the U.S. elections had ended in victory for Donald Trump, and the post-mortems were full of buzzwords the Chancellor urgently needed to understand...
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Facebook quietly bought a startup that can manipulate videos
Fake news, it's a big deal on Facebook, and we might just be getting more of it in the form of videos. Facebook recently bought a startup with an expertise in video manipulation, Deutsche Startups reported. The German-based startup Fayteq has software that is able to remove or add objects in videos, even live ones, and add effects to them.
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In One Tweet, Donald Trump Just Spread Fake History, Libeled a Hero, and Admired an Alleged War Crime
The president of the United States – the man who just yesterday said, “When I make a statement, I like to be correct. I want the facts” – fired out a tweet apparently in response to the dreadful terror attack in Barcelona, Spain.
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The fake news machine: Inside a town gearing up for 2020
There's a whole industry dedicated to producing fake US news in Macedonia – and it's getting ready for 2020
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Reliance on ‘gut feelings’ linked to belief in fake news, study finds
People who tend to trust their intuition or to believe that the facts they hear are politically biased are more likely to stand behind inaccurate beliefs, a new study suggests. And those who rely on concrete evidence to form their beliefs are less likely to have misperceptions about high-profile scientific and political issues, said Kelly Garrett, the lead researcher and a professor of communication at The Ohio State University.
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How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down
At the height of the 2016 election, exaggerated reports of a juvenile sex crime brought a media maelstrom to Twin Falls — one the Idaho city still hasn’t recovered from.
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How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down
On a Tuesday morning in June 2016, Nathan Brown, a reporter for The Times-News, the local paper in Twin Falls, Idaho, strolled into the office and cleared off a spot for his coffee cup amid the documents and notebooks piled on his desk. Brown, 32, started his career at a paper in upstate New York, where he grew up, and looks the part of a local reporter, clad in a fresh oxford and khakis that tend to become disheveled over the course of his long days.
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US 'fake news' kingpin found dead at 38
A writer who became notorious for peddling "fake news" during the 2016 US election campaign has died at 38. Paul Horner was found dead in his bed in Laveen, Arizona, on 18 September, after a suspected drug overdose, officials said. Horner, who published fraudulent articles on Facebook and websites he set up, claimed he was the reason Donald Trump was elected in November.
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People Are Sharing This Fake Photo Of NFL Players Burning The American Flag
The original photo appears to be of Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett doing a post-game victory dance with his teammates in the locker room in 2015.
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The untold, inside story of the first hack to nearly start a war
Diplomatic spats in the Middle East are hardly rare. But the conflict that started this summer between Qatar and some of its Arab neighbors may be unique. It’s the first major geopolitical crisis to have been sparked by a computer hack, and was nearly the first “fake news” war to transform into a physical conflict. And far as anyone can tell, the fake news had a target audience of approximately one: US president Donald Trump. In interviews and documentation provided to Quartz, the Qatari government has outlined its version of the events that led to the crisis in detail for the first time.
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Cal Students Develop Way To Expose Fake News Accounts, Bots On Twitter
Two Bay Area college students may have found a way to expose fake accounts on Twitter known as bots. From their apartment just off the Cal campus Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte or RoBhat Labs believe they have cracked the code that’s been bedeviling social media companies and Congress — fake news and bots.
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Google promoted Texas gunman fake news
Google says it is "not happy" that its search results displayed false information about Texas gunman Devin Patrick Kelley, who killed 26 people. The search engine displayed a carousel of posts "popular on Twitter" that contained false stories that Kelley was a Muslim and a left-wing extremist. Google's Danny Sullivan said the tweets were promoted by the site's "ranking algorithm", which would be improved.
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Facebook to Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed
Facebook Inc. will show people which Russian propaganda pages or accounts they’ve followed and liked on the social network, responding to a request from Congress to address manipulation and meddling during the 2016 presidential election.
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'Fake news' study finds incorrect information can't be corrected simply by pointing out it's false
New research suggests that higher intelligence can act as a buffer against fake news. The study, published in the scientific journal Intelligence, found that some people are better at revising their attitude after learning that information they received was false.
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Trump Brings Out the Worst in the Press
The way reporters are responding to a dishonest White House is not enhancing their credibility. By Ramesh Ponnuru.
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If You Get 41/55 On This Quiz, Fake News Didn’t Fool You This Year
Find out if you kept your grip on reality after the year we’ve had. By Jane Lytvynenko.
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Study: 42 percent of Republicans believe accurate — but negative — stories qualify as ‘fake news’
An alarming number for an alarming time.
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Fake News Awards: CNN 'wins' taking 4 out of 11 'accolades' announced by Donald Trump
Donald Trump gave the broadcaster CNN four of his "fake news" awards on Wednesday as he used the gimmick to escalate his attacks on media. The US president singled out The New York Times twice while the broadcaster ABC and the magazines Time and Newsweek were each mentioned once. Claims of "collusion" between the Trump campaign and Russia - a topic which has overshadowed the presidency and is being investigated by a special counsel - was also named.
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The "Highly Anticipated" 2017 Fake News Awards
"2017 has been a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news." - GOP
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