TYPES OF FAKE NEWS

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TYPES OF FAKE NEWS
Satire
A piece of content obviously intended to amuse readers that can be misinterpreted as fact.

In the spectrum of fake news, this is the least harmful, Jenkins said. An amusing example would be the "Gorilla Channel."

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Misleading content
This is the misuse of information to frame an issue completely differently, which "may have some truth, but makes a false claim or context," Jenkins said.

Shortly after the election, a misquotation led to this sensational headline: "Ireland is now officially accepting Trump refugees from the U.S." The quote was attributed to an interview with Mary Heanue, a former official of Inishturk, an island off the west coast of Ireland, in The Irish Central.

The problems? Heanue disputes the context of the quote, saying the conversation wasn’t political. Plus, Inishturk can’t unilaterally accept refugees on behalf of Ireland. Not to mention that Never Trumpers don’t qualify as refugees. And Ireland isn’t accepting them anyway, unless they’re tourists.

False connection
Content that connects two unrelated things, where a "photo, caption, or headline promoting a story doesn’t actually match up with the content," Jenkins said, differentiating it from clickbait.

"Consider the promotional images you might see on social media or at the bottom of news sites with the headline like ‘Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Dead,’ with a photo of a celebrity that’s alive," Jenkins said. "Of course, then you click through and find that person wasn’t mentioned in the story after all."

Imposter
Fake content that purports to come from a real news site.

"We’ve definitely seen stories from websites, such as ABCNews.com.co, ABCNews.co, or CNNNews dot ‘some country code.’ It was made to look like CNN, but some down market look of CNN," Jenkins said.

Manipulated content
Content that presents real information, even imagery and video, but is manipulated in some way to tell a different story.

Snopes took a look back on 2017’s "fauxtography," calling out misleading images that followed the year’s biggest stories, ranging from crowd sizes to neo-Nazis and Antifa at Charlottesville, Virginia. Project Veritas also typifies this kind of content with its selectively edited "sting operations."

Full fabrication
Everything in this type of story is fake and designed with intent to do harm.

Late last year, a Gateway Pundit story featured unverified claims that women were paid by The Washington Post to make false accusations of sexual assault against then-Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Whatever the president says
A tool wielded by politicians to denounce stories POTUS doesn’t like.

A Gallup/Knight Foundation study found steep partisan divides between Democrats and Republicans on a fake news definition. Republicans generally label stories unfavorable to the president with the epithet, even if it’s factually accurate. Democrats generally hew to the more general term: intentionally misleading or false content.

John McCain slammed Trump’s attacks on the press in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

"The phrase ‘fake news’ — granted legitimacy by an American president — is being used by autocrats to silence reporters, undermine political opponents, stave off media scrutiny, and mislead citizens."

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Spiky wrote:How can we prevent ourselves in fake news?

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Spiky wrote:How can we prevent ourselves in fake news?

think carefully and dont easily believe what you hear from the others .