Adding to the aggregation of coverage: >From the Intercept this morning: A Clinton Fan Manufactured Fake News That MSNBC Personalities Spread to Discredit WikiLeaks Docs https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/a-clinton-fan-manufactured-fake-news-that-msnbc-personalities-spread-to-discredit-wikileaks-docs/
On Dec 9, 2016 07:45, "Jayne Cravens" <j...@coyotecommunications.com> wrote: I think it's too early for academic studies to be completed and published on this phenom. Really looking forward to those. Here's non-academic articles I've found, or related stuff: Fake Election News Stories Outperformed Real News On Facebook A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined. https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/viral-fake- election-news-outperformed-real-news-on-facebook National Public Radio story a few days ago the guy in Los Angeles who built many of these fake news sites http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/ 503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs Filippo Menczer, Professor of Computer Science and Informatics and Director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University, Bloomington, authored the article Why Fake News Is So Incredibly Effective, published in Time and The Conversation. http://time.com/4583475/fake-news-effective/ a new study from Stanford researchers evaluated students’ ability to assess information sources, and described the results as “dismaying,” “bleak” and a “threat to democracy,” as reported by NPR News. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/23/503129818/study-finds- students-have-dismaying-inability-to-tell-fake-news-from-real And maybe on a related note: fake news, folklore & friendships http://coyotecommunications.com/coyoteblog/2016/11/28/fakenews/ How did volunteers impact the 2016 USA Presidential election? http://coyotecommunications.com/coyoteblog/2016/12/01/2016volunteers/ --- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Ms. Jayne Cravens MSc Portland, Oregon, USA The web site - http://www.coyotecommunications.com The email - j...@coyotecommunications.com Me on Twitter, other social networks, & my blog: http://www.coyotecommunications.com/me/jayneonline.shtml Author: The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook More about the book, and how to buy it (as a paperback or as an e-book): http://www.energizeinc.com/store/1-222-E-1 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/ mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
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