Fake news is big news these days.
The explosion of information on the Internet triggered a heated debate. -
Especially on social media sites. -
This proves to be wrong or misleading.
President Donald Trump has fought back the allegations that fake news helped him win the election, and now he has exercised the word about reports he doesn't like.
As platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google are filled with content with questionable authenticity, many media are concerned that consumers may lose trust in real stories.
Perhaps the most unpleasant thing is social media companies, especially Facebook.
They earn millions of advertising revenue by distributing information, but the last thing they want is responsibility as a publisher, such as making sure the story is accurate.
Some Hillary Clinton supporters say a lot of counterfeit goods could be good for Trump, affecting the outcome of the November 2016 election.
They are not alone.
"A fake impression of Facebook --
Paul Horner told The Washington Post: "I think Trump is at the White House because of me.
BuzzFeed commented: "BuzzFeed found out that of the 20 false election stories that share the most,on and reacted-
17 people on FacebookTrump or anti-Clinton.
Trump has sought cooperation
Choose this term and apply it to stories that are not flattering, anonymous sources, or incorrect.
Pope Francis supports Trump.
An FBI agent is suspected of leaking Clinton's email.
The mail was found dead.
One protester admitted they were paid $3,500 to disrupt Trump's rally.
Tens of thousands of fraudulent votes.
Clinton's mark was found in a warehouse in Ohio.
Trump once called the Republican Party "the stupidest voter base in the country ".
Clinton has a child in her core circle.
Sex rings at a pizza shop in Washington. (
For the last time, a North Carolina man visited the restaurant with a assault rifle and planned "self"investigate. ")
It's hard to say.
All we know is that this is the first election that most people in the United States are in. S.
Adults get their news from social media.
If they get the message on Facebook, the message appears in front of them in a very personalized, filtered way ---
Provide what they want to see.
When people get the news they want, they may have blind spots and will not be exposed to other information that challenges their assumptions.
This is a branch of propaganda spread by regimes around the world over the years.
But when propaganda often means official lies, the phenomenon of fake news can be real democracy.
The two can promote each other.
Latvian Prime Minister Maris kucinski has accused Russia of using mixed attacks on propaganda and false news reports that could disrupt elections in France and Germany this year. A Kremlin-
Controlled news agencies in Sputnik and Russia
Owned TV network RT "takes releasing fake news as their daily business", leader of En Marche, France! party said.
The Czech government has set up a center to combat false information and propaganda, including false reports on media and social networks.
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg initially downplayed fake news as a problem, but said he would take it seriously.
Facebook will allow users to mark content as "fake news" and enable facts-
Check partners to tag the story with a dispute, which means the story cannot be turned into a Facebook paid ad-
A way to promote viruses.
"Our approach will no longer focus on banning error messages, but more on presenting more views and information," he wrote on his Facebook page on February . ". 16.
It comes from many sources.
Some suppliers advertise in it-
Selling money, like young people in Macedonia
Trump's article or a pair of 20-
Some friends in California call themselves "new yellow journalists ".
"The difference between the Hearst era and the Facebook era is that on social media, the sharing and likes of angry friends and family have replaced the screaming newsman on the corner.
Other sources of misleading information are trying to push an agenda forward.
Sometimes the machine is caused by some old mistakes. -
As social media makes everyone a potential journalist, an innocent observation could go away if enough people want it to be true. A post-
According to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, 23% of Americans say they share fake news intentionally or without intention.
Most people click on stories that trigger surprises, sadness, anger, or confusion that they share on social media.
Facebook's algorithms amplify the content by promoting posts that raise such concerns.
Advertisers pay for the location next to these stories because they want to be the place to catch the eye.
Finally, the flat landscape of social media eliminates many of the filters we use to judge content.
On the newsstand, there is a clear difference between the Washington Post and the National Inquirer.
But their posts on Facebook look similar on your timeline.
The public has not been so hard hit on this issue.
Not fake news, not shared there--
Instead, Trump tweeted about "illegal voting for millions of people" and the "record" murder rate in Chicago.
Butunlike Facebook determines people's news sources based on its algorithms, and Twitter shows users everything that everyone they choose to focus on posts
Chronological order.
The Internet provides a series of information.
Party-View stories disguised as news, plus a lot of irony and interesting memes.
What is the algorithm doing?
Facebook engineers have trained their algorithms and they know it must be relevant if something is really popular.
It's easy for the company to suppress a complete scam ---
For example, by searching for the topic on a major news site, or detecting a Snopes article that reveals it ---
However, it is difficult to make an automatic decision on how to deal with the issue of publicity --
Just like the content to provoke people.