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Man arrested, accused of threatening to kill CNN employees
A Michigan man was arrested after allegedly threatening to shoot and kill CNN employees, WGCL-TV reported Monday.
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Pope says fake news is satanic, condemns use in politics
Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned fake news as satanic, saying journalists and social media users should shun and unmask manipulative “snake tactics” that foment division to serve political and economic interests.
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British government’s new ‘anti-fake news’ unit has been tried before – and it got out of hand
A new national security communications unit has echoes of the past, when the government tried to weaponise information, with mixed results. By Dan Lomas.
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Fox News’ latest ‘bombshell’ on Obama and the FBI is a total fraud
Trump is already tweeting about it.
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Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News
Researchers identify a major risk factor for pernicious effects of misinformation
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The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News
“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it,” Jonathan Swift once wrote. It was hyperbole three centuries ago. But it is a factual description of social media, according to an ambitious and first-of-its-kind study published Thursday in Science. The massive new study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter’s existence—some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years—and finds that the truth simply cannot compete with hoax and rumor.
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Almost no one actually believes Fake News. So what's the problem?
The statistics are shocking. A Russian troll farm created false anti-Clinton stories and distributed them on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. As many as 126 million Facebook users may have encountered at least one piece of Russian propaganda; Russian tweets received as many as 288 million views. The Russians, just like Trump's campaign itself, leveraged the adtech infrastructure developed by social media companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter to identify and target those most receptive to their lies and provocations.
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Singapore to Fight Fake News the Way it Fights Drugs
Singapore intends to treat fake news with the same comprehensive approach as it does illicit drugs while allowing space for a “robust” discourse, according to a cabinet minister involved in discussions on new regulations. Janil Puthucheary, senior minister of state for communications and information and a member of the committee, said in an interview Monday he favored an integrated approach similar to the one Singapore uses against drugs.
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Malaysia government proposes 10 years in jail for fake news
Malaysia’s government proposed new legislation Monday to outlaw fake news and punish offenders with a 10-year jail sentence, a move slammed as an attempt to silence dissent ahead of a general election. Prime Minister Najib Razak has been dogged by a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal involving an indebted state fund, and rights activists fear the new law could be used to criminalize news reports and critical opinions on government misconduct.
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A new study suggests fake news might have won Donald Trump the 2016 election
The research finds demographics alone didn't explain 2012 Obama voters who didn't vote for Hillary Clinton. Fake news did, too.
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The Era of Fake Video Begins
The digital manipulation of video may make the current era of “fake news” seem quaint.
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FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segments and scripts
It was hard to avoid seeing the video posted last week showing local news stations reciting a "must-run" script about fake news from their parent company, Sinclair broadcasting, in eerie synchrony.
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Fake video news is coming, and this clip of Obama 'insulting' Trump shows how dangerous it could be
A new video released by BuzzFeed appears to show former president Barack Obama calling President Donald Trump "a total and complete dips--- " among other outlandish statements — but as with many things online, it's not what it seems.
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‘Fake news’ leaves half of people thinking stress causes cancer
Almost half of people mistakenly believe that stress causes cancer, Cancer Research UK has warned. The charity warned that “fake news” on the internet appears to be fuelling a rise in incorrect beliefs about the causes of the disease. Their polling found that stress, food additives, eating GM foods, and using mobile phones and microwave ovens were among the most popular “mythical” causes of cancer.
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How Facebook fired workers who blocked 'fake news' — 'After the Fact' book excerpt
Adam Schrader arrived for his secret job at Facebook one Friday morning in late August 2016 without realizing that his hours there were numbered. After taking the elevator to the seventh floor of the social media giant’s gleaming office in lower Manhattan, the former Dallas Morning News community publication editor strode by inspirational posters, white desks and then by TVs that blared the latest news from the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians. Their dominant strategy: Sowing racial discord
The Russian company charged with orchestrating a wide-ranging effort to meddle in the 2016 presidential election overwhelmingly focused its barrage of social media advertising on what is arguably America’s rawest political division: race. The roughly 3,500 Facebook ads were created by the Russian-based Internet Research Agency, which is at the center of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s February indictment of 13 Russians and three companies seeking to influence the election.
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What Advertising History Says About the Future of Fake News
Technological advances have made it easy to spread fake news. But after these fabrications become familiar, their danger is likely to recede, the economist Austan Goolsbee says.
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21 journalists in six countries jailed on charges related to 'fake news' in 2017
A minimum of 21 journalists worldwide were imprisoned on charges connected to "fake news" last year, according to a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists. The report cites the recent implementation of measures in countries such as Brazil, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Russia aimed at targeting the rise of fake news. Arrests blamed on fake news reportedly more than doubled from 2016.
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France's fake news law leaves media experts uneasy
France is the latest country attempting to fight the scourge of fake news with legislation -- but opponents say the law won't work and could even be used to silence critics.
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Alexander Nix blames 'global liberal media' for Cambridge Analytica collapse
Former CEO of company at the centre of the Facebook data-mining scandal is appearing before the Commons ‘fake news’ inquiry.
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