Questions tagged [fake-news]
The intentional generation and spread of information about current events that is knowingly false.
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How does Richard Stengel propose to do away with paywalls for news, "—at least during the 2024 election"?
In the Ideas section of The Atlantic, Richard Stengel's April 14, 2024 Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls; The case for making journalism free—at least during the 2024 election itself trails off into the ...
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Why is Reuters considered as an independent and unbiased political news source?
Reuters is very often used and quoted in parliamentary hearings, google updates and different news outlets.
Many people say that this is because of the "independent " nature of reporting of ...
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How to Look for Evidence Supporting/Rejecting the Claims in a News Article? [closed]
In most documents that give instructions on how to discern facts from misinformation, they highlight the importance of looking for evidence in reliable and balanced references that support/reject ...
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Does Romania or any other EU country have a criminal law that punishes originating or spreading false information?
It's been said on Euronews that
A misleading Facebook video had suggested that there were no patients at a temporary hospital in the northeastern city of Piatra-Neamț.
Officials at the health centre ...
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Is there a distinction between fake news and dissent?
I have become increasingly concerned about the idea of "fake news". While I have little sympathy for professional crapmongers who laugh all the way to the bank with their expertly tangled ...
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Is there anything that prevents popular opinion from becoming fact as it's written in history? [closed]
I've seen over the last few years, members of congress and others, using news articles as sources of factual information in official testimonies. Additionally, news organizations regularly repeat ...
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Any mechanism in the US to decide what is conspiracy theory, and what is not? [closed]
It is obviously important to divide truth from conspiracy theories. Truth is good, and conspiracy theories are bad and disturbing. But how would common citizen know what is good, and what is bad?
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How can a non-US resident best follow US politics in a balanced well reported manner? [closed]
I hope this is a valid question for this SE. At the heart of politics must be reporting of the political process, and in every country of whatever system, the reporting of politics is seen as very ...
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Have fake-news regulations in the Western world lead to the backfire effect?
To my knowledge, anti-fake news laws being implemented in France, Germany and Singapore in the Western world. Many studies like this one mention the psychological studies which acknowledge the ...
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Does Facebook have a program that regularly checks their employees' (especially their content moderator teams) political involvements?
Recently, here in the Philippines, there's news that Facebook took down an account/group/page of an organization named "Hands Off Our Children". This is an organization that fights for ...
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Is it illegal for candidates to pay a journalist to publish fake news?
Say candidate A and candidate B both want to be elected president.
Then candidate A pays a journalist to publish an invented story about candidate B. For example where candidate B killed a cat.
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Listing of lawsuits against Fox News and CNN? [closed]
Is there a source that lists lawsuits against Fox News and CNN (and perhaps other news media)? It would be useful if the results could be limited by date range, and could exclude internal matters ...
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Has any recent boycott against a media due to fake news channel succeeded?
In 2017 Romania was full of anti-corruption protests and some media channels have been far from journalism deontology when reporting these protests (example: dogs paid by Soros to protest).
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Are major American news organizations in fact self-proclaimed as being left- or right-wing...or is determining that just relegated to public opinion?
If I say a news organization leans left or right, am I the one who's biased or are these news organizations in fact biased?
There should be a factual, documented answer to my question--but if the ...
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Are there any successful decentralised approaches to combating fake news?
There seem to be centralised approaches to combating fake news, such as Youtube suppressing fake news about coronavirus. Are there any decentralised approaches though? When most people share a news ...
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