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Defining “Fake News”: A typology of scholarly definitions
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A review of how previous studies have defined and operationalized the term "fake news" can be found in this article, based on a review of 34 academic articles that used the term 'fake news' between 2003 and 2013.Abstract:
This paper is based on a review of how previous studies have defined and operationalized the term “fake news.” An examination of 34 academic articles that used the term “fake news” between 2003 and...read more
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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
Hunt Allcott,Matthew Gentzkow +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that people are much more likely to believe stories that favor their preferred candidate, especially if they have ideologically segregated social media networks, and that the average American adult saw on the order of one or perhaps several fake news stories in the months around the 2016 U.S. presidential election, with just over half of those who recalled seeing them believing them.
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Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Nir Grinberg,Nir Grinberg,Kenneth Joseph,Lisa Friedland,Briony Swire-Thompson,Briony Swire-Thompson,David Lazer,David Lazer +7 more
TL;DR: Exposure to and sharing of fake news by registered voters on Twitter was examined and it was found that engagement with fake news sources was extremely concentrated and individuals most likely to engage withfake news sources were conservative leaning, older, and highly engaged with political news.
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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
TL;DR: The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect as mentioned in this paper is a survey of editors, journalists, and members of the public on the role of conscience in newsrooms.
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A Survey of Fake News: Fundamental Theories, Detection Methods, and Opportunities
Xinyi Zhou,Reza Zafarani +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of methods that can detect fake news from four perspectives: the false knowledge it carries, its writing style, its propagation patterns, and the credibility of its source.
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Truth is What Happens to News
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the phenomenon of fake news is indicative of the contested position of news and the dynamics of belief formation in contemporary societies, and that it is symptomatic of the collapse of the traditional media.
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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
Hunt Allcott,Matthew Gentzkow +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that people are much more likely to believe stories that favor their preferred candidate, especially if they have ideologically segregated social media networks, and that the average American adult saw on the order of one or perhaps several fake news stories in the months around the 2016 U.S. presidential election, with just over half of those who recalled seeing them believing them.
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Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality
TL;DR: Newsworkers decide what news is, why they cover some items but not others, and how they decide what Inand others want to know as discussed by the authors, and the role of consciousness in the construction of social meanings and the organization of experience.
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman,Noam Chomsky +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the state-of-the-art technologies used in the field of data collection and analysis of data in the context of data aggregation.
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
TL;DR: Herman and Chomsky as mentioned in this paper proposed a "propaganda model" of the way in which the media serve as a system-supportive institution by inculcating and reinforcing the economic, social and political agenda of the elite.
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The "Gate Keeper": A Case Study In the Selection of News
TL;DR: In one of the first studies of its kind, all the wire stories used and all those rejected by a non-metropolitan newspaper over a seven-day period are classified by content, and the reasons given by editors as mentioned in this paper.