{"id":1198,"date":"2018-09-25T14:36:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/?page_id=1198"},"modified":"2020-05-10T12:56:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T12:56:25","slug":"fake-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotting Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f7\/The_fin_de_si%C3%A8cle_newspaper_proprietor_%28cropped%29.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"196\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1894 cartoon by by Frederick Burr Opper.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fake_news\"><br \/>\n<b>Fake news<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is a type of\u00a0yellow journalism\u00a0or\u00a0propaganda\u00a0that consists of deliberate\u00a0disinformation\u00a0or\u00a0hoaxes\u00a0spread via traditional print and\u00a0 broadcast\u00a0news media\u00a0or online\u00a0social media.\u00a0 (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nieman Reports<\/strong> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2018\/09\/facebooks-attempts-to-fight-fake-news-seem-to-be-working-twitters-not-so-much\/?utm_source=Daily+Lab+email+list&amp;utm_campaign=26fd25b27b-dailylabemail3&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_d68264fd5e-26fd25b27b-396220629\">aFacebook&#8217;s attempts to fight fake news seem to be working\u00a0 <\/a>\u00a0Sept. 21, 2018\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Citing, in particular, T<a href=\"http:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~gentzkow\/research\/fake-news-trends.pdf\">rends in the diffusion of misinformation on social media<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Mason<\/strong> Center for Climate Change Communication &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangecommunication.org\/how-to-spot-covid19-conspiracy-theories\/?fbclid=IwAR36Q8Wg5MvltwInmUW9hPnuOngsJWFjkyC92pieZxOnXPefLyqI1gzA0aU\">How to spot COVID 19 conspiracy theories\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ProPublica<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/im-an-investigative-journalist-these-are-the-questions-i-asked-about-the-viral-plandemic-video?fbclid=IwAR2MDYtgY7J8k2naDjFN51b1jSjS7Bb6SERCbtt3VBItwbCl5-2mOhY8D74\">Questions to ask<\/a> about fake videos like &#8220;Plandemic&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangecommunication.org\/how-to-spot-covid19-conspiracy-theories\/?fbclid=IwAR36Q8Wg5MvltwInmUW9hPnuOngsJWFjkyC92pieZxOnXPefLyqI1gzA0aU\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake news\u00a0is a type of\u00a0yellow journalism\u00a0or\u00a0propaganda\u00a0that consists of deliberate\u00a0disinformation\u00a0or\u00a0hoaxes\u00a0spread via traditional print and\u00a0 broadcast\u00a0news media\u00a0or online\u00a0social media.\u00a0 (Wikipedia) Nieman Reports &#8212; aFacebook&#8217;s attempts to fight fake news seem to be working\u00a0 \u00a0Sept. 21, 2018\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Citing, in particular, Trends in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/fake-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1198","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1198\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}