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Posted 2019-10-14
You’ve probably heard the expression daily the last couple of years. Fake news. It seems like it’s on everyone’s lips, from leading politicians to people in your social media flow.
Posted 2019-09-06
Fake news can cause harm in many ways. Generally, they can diminish the confidence in all news reporting, even serious ones, which in turn can hurt the democratic society.
Posted 2019-09-04
The Great Moon Hoax is one of the most famous examples of fake news and was originally published in The New York Sun magazine in August 1835. The purpose? To attract more readers.
Posted 2019-09-03
Fake news. What do we mean by that expression? Is it just a social media clickbait to earn easy advertising money? Is it a label on fabricated journalist-styled content to drive public opinion in a certain direction? Or is it a strategy some people use, trying to downgrade statements they don’t agree with? Or maybe all of this?
Posted 2019-09-02
Fake news is no news. In fact, there are several thousand-year-old examples of how fabricated news has been used to influence public opinion.
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