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The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.
Doomscrolling. A person scrolling through news on a smartphone. Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of news, particularly negative news, on the web and social media. [1][2] Doomscrolling can also be defined as the excessive consumption of short-form videos or social media ...
Misinformation. A sign campaigning for the successful Vote Leave in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. The claim made by the sign was widely considered to have been an example of misinformation. [1][2][3][4] Misinformation is incorrect or misleading information. [5][6] Misinformation can exist without specific ...
The bad news. On the bad side of things, growth continues to be a challenge for the company. Second-quarter revenue clocked in at $108.5 million, down 28% from the prior year's $150.5 million and ...
Schadenfreude is a term borrowed from German. It is a compound of Schaden ("damage/harm") and Freude ("joy"). The German word was first mentioned in English texts in 1852 and 1867, and first used in English running text in 1895. [ 2 ] In German, it was first attested in the 1740s. [ 3 ]
Shooting the messenger. " Shooting the messenger " (also " killing the messenger " or " attacking the messenger " or " blaming the bearer of bad tidings / the doom monger ") is a metaphoric phrase used to describe the act of blaming the bearer of bad news, despite the bearer or messenger having no direct responsibility for the bad news or its ...
In some definitions, fake news includes satirical articles misinterpreted as genuine, and articles that employ sensationalist or clickbait headlines that are not supported in the text. [1] Because of this diversity of types of false news, researchers are beginning to favour information disorder as a more neutral and informative term.
e. In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic. Events and topics in news stories are selected and worded to excite the greatest number of readers and viewers. This style of news reporting encourages biased or emotionally loaded impressions of events rather than neutrality, and may cause a manipulation to the ...