Snopes.com's updated list of fake news sites and hoax purveyors for 2017. Snopes Membership. ... requiring them to highlight the solid black background of a page footer to disclose the site's ...

However, that “fake news” fact would lurk in the background of your brain. ... This is why people create fake news intentionally. They do it to confuse you and plant the seeds of disinformation.

A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election. One that got a lot of traffic had this headline: "FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found ...

Even President Obama weighed in (while still president), assailing the rapid accumulation of fake news as a "dust cloud of nonsense." "If we are not serious about facts, if we can't discriminate ...

The reality is that fake news is killing people.Research shows that wearing masks could reduce the spread of COVID-19 by half, yet misleading claims about the safety of mask-wearing have ...

But this picture in the background wouldn’t take on a life of its own until many years later. ... that photographically driven “fake news” has been around for at least a century.

Stanford researchers assessed students from middle school to college and found they struggled to distinguish ads from articles, neutral sources from biased ones and fake accounts from real ones.

An early Facebook strategy for combating fake news, for example, was to flag false headlines with a “disputed by third-party fact checkers” warning, and a recently leaked memo suggests that ...

You know fake news is a problem, but you’re not part of the problem, right? You “heart” photos of your cousin’s newborn. You comment to cheer on a colleague running her first 5K. You ...

Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills — such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically ...

We found the number of “big lies” – also known as fake news – didn’t increase in 2023 compared to 2020. But we did spot more “small lies” this time. Here’s what to look out for in ...