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Articles tagged Jonathan Albright (9)

Plus: How “junk news” differs from “fake news,” and LinkedIn gets less boring (but not in a good way).
Plus: A big overview of all the research that we have so far.
Plus: Outrage-tweeting is a dangerous thing, and why we have to teach students not to be “trust misers.”
“The kinds of things that I often see could literally be stopped by one person. I mean: 4chan trending on Google during the Las Vegas shooting? How that even happened, I have no idea, but I do know that one person could have stopped that.”
Plus: The lines between “fake news” and psyops, the Russians shared real news too, and “reality apathy.”
Plus: Google’s new but fairly useless “knowledge panels,” bots spreading misinformation in local races, and: When is misinformation most dangerous?
Plus: Facebook is just fixing a bug (right!), labeling fake news seems to work, and lawmakers will release the Russia ads.
Facebook naprawia błąd w oprogramowaniu (naprawdę!), oznaczanie fake newsów przynosi rezultaty, a politycy podejmą kampanię przeciwko Rosji.
Plus: How news organizations could work together to stop the spread of misinformation during breaking news events; fighting fake news on WhatsApp.