What if the story about fake news is fake news? How would you know? There are some reasons to be suspicious about this story, since we never find out what we mean by 'fooled' and 'fake news'. So what do we do? If nothing else, go to the source (214 page PDF) and read it. The word 'fooled' appears precisely once. "Fewer than half indicate that they were initially fooled by the fake news they saw, but it is clearly happening at least sometimes." (p. 61) The story focuses on social media, but the survey also covers fake news on television and print media. Overall, 6 in 10 report seeing fake news on social media, roughly half on traditional media, and only 40 percent on blogs. Also missing from the story, interestingly: "internet users in Canada (59%), Turkey (59%) and the United States itself (57%) were most likely to say that the United States is most responsible for the disruptive effect of fake news in their own country."
Today: 8 Total: 1129 [Direct link] [Share]
