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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.
The New York Times has defined "fake news" on the internet as fictitious articles deliberately fabricated to deceive readers, generally with the goal of profiting through clickbait. [31] PolitiFact has described fake news as fabricated content designed to fool readers and subsequently made viral through the Internet to crowds that increase its ...
Fake news websites target United States audiences by using disinformation to create or inflame controversial topics such as the 2016 election. [1][2] Most fake news websites target readers by impersonating or pretending to be real news organizations, which can lead to legitimate news organizations further spreading their message. [3]
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.
Debate over the impact of fake news in the November 2016 United States presidential election, and whether or not it significantly impacted the election of the Republican candidate Donald Trump, whom the most shared fake stories favored, [27] [28] led researchers from Stanford to study the impact of fake news shared on social media, where 62% of ...
Hoax news (also referred to as fake news [18] [19]) is a news report containing facts that are either inaccurate or false but which are presented as genuine. [20] A hoax news report conveys a half-truth used deliberately to mislead the public. [21]
Following criticism of Facebook in the context of fake news around the 2016 United States presidential election, Facebook recognized that Wikipedia already had an established process for fact-checking. [4] Facebook's subsequent strategy for countering fake news included using content from Wikipedia for fact-checking.
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 ...