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  2. How right-wing social media took false claims about Haitians ...

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    The accusation was shocking, but, in at least one way, it was like any other post on any other neighborhood Facebook page. ... fueled mainly by right-wing influencers on the social media site X ...

  3. List of satirical fake news websites - Wikipedia

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    This fake news website mostly consists of celebrity gossip and death hoaxes, but a few of its other stories were disseminated on social media. When the site was up it said that it was "a combination of real shocking news and satire news" and that articles were for "entertainment and satirical purposes" only. [9] [9] [25] News Hound news-hound ...

  4. Social media platforms engaged in 'vast surveillance' and ...

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    Even though most social media platforms require teens to be at least 13 to create accounts, people can easily lie about their age and the platforms collect data from teens in the same way they do ...

  5. Sensationalism - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Fake news - Wikipedia

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    With the popularity of social media, individuals can easily access fake news and disinformation. The rapid spread of false stories on social media during the 2012 elections in Italy has been documented, as has diffusion of false stories on Facebook during the 2016 US election campaign. [37] Fake news has the tendency to become viral among the ...

  7. Social media erupts after president throws to Jill Biden to ...

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    Social media erupted after First Lady Jill Biden presented at what may be one of President Biden’s final Cabinet meetings in the White House. Biden convened his Cabinet on Friday for the first ...

  8. If London Were Syria - Wikipedia

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    If London Were Syria, titled on YouTube Most Shocking Second a Day Video, [1][2][3] is a 93-second charity commercial, created by Don't Panic London for Save The Children UK, marking the third anniversary of the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War. [4] It features a young British girl experiencing the effects of a hypothetical civil war on the ...

  9. Social media users are collectively blocking celebrities and ...

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    Hundreds of celebrities are on the “digital guillotine” as social media users campaign for a #blockout — urging one another to block the social media accounts of big names who have remained ...