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By Adam Mosseri, VP, News Feed A few weeks ago we previewed some of the things we’re working on to address the issue of fake news and hoaxes. We’re committed to doing our part and today we’d like to share some updates we’re testing and starting to roll out. We believe in giving people a…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact, and ABC News will help Facebook make good on four of the six promises Mark Zuckerberg made about fighting fake news without it becoming “the arbiter of truth”. It will make fake news posts less visible, append warnings from fact checkers to fake news in the feed, make…
Despite beating Facebook in the early PR battle against fake news, Google is still indirectly helping fund publishers that intentionally spread misleading information. Google’s digital infrastructure touches nearly everything on the internet, including fake-news websites. So unlike tech companies with less reach, Google requires much more than mere blacklists to block fake news publishers from…
Shoes taken from Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz via Getty | Screenshot via Google If you Google “did the Holocaust happen” the first result is a link from Stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi and white supremacist forum that’s widely regarded as the internet’s “first major hate site.” That’s troubling for sure, but Google’s response was far more concerning….
.entry-header Jonathan Albright, a professor at Elon University in North Carolina, is an expert in data journalism who has worked for both Google and Yahoo. He specializes in media analytics and social networks, and he has created a network map or topology that describes the landscape of the fake-news ecosystem. Even if Facebook and Google…
close story-meta Facts hold a sacred place in Western liberal democracies. Whenever democracy seems to be going awry, when voters are manipulated or politicians are ducking questions, we turn to facts for salvation. But they seem to be losing their ability to support consensus. PolitiFact has found that about 70 percent of Donald Trump’s “factual”…
In my exploration of “fake news”, I’ve found some troubling things. And it’s not just the rightwing news network that’s worrying. I’ve recently gone back and taken a preliminary look at the leftwing media ecosystem, trying to map the hyperlinks between these sites – so I’m not trying to establish causation or assign blame as…
Combined “left-wing” +“right-wing” news hyperlink network; RED: sites only linked to in right-wing network; BLUE: sites only linked to in left-wing network ; WHITE: sites that are linked to in *both* L & R networks. Finished! Here is a combined (ie, merged) network graph from my left-wing and right-wing news hyperlink “ecosystems”. The graphs were normalized…
Until now, the work in this project has focused on the “right-wing” news media ecosystem. The “micro-propaganda” network graph showed a number of smaller sites in the right-wing news ecosystem orbiting as “satellites” around the mainstream media, YouTube, and Google. In the widest-view “right-wing” network graph, red lines show thousands of hyperlinks being directed “in” from the…
My Final Post Re: the Post-Fact Era The Age of Post-Truth Politics How can we still be speaking of “facts” when they no longer provide us with a reality that we all agree on? The problem…www.nytimes.com *It’s done: I’ve added this final round of analysis and network visualizations based on 1.3 million hyperlinks captured across…