Fake News on Facebook and Public Reaction
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Authors
Verdizada, Ulvi
Issue Date
2017-03-24
Type
Presentation
Language
en_US
Keywords
Facebook , News
Alternative Title
Abstract
Many Facebook followers are being fed false news according to Analysis by Buzzfeed News. The review of over 2000 sources containing photos, links, videos, texts during pre-election generated by right wing, left wing and mainstream media and rated as “mostly true”, “mixture of true and false”, “mostly false” and “no factual content” show that followers react more to mostly false and no factual content news.