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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2025. For satirical news, see List of satirical news websites. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely ...
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The result of fake news spreading on WhatsApp included changes to the app by journalist Juanita León, who invented the WhatsApp "lie detector" in January 2017 to fight fake news within the app. [414] Although the accord was eventually signed, the WhatsApp incident further prolonged the accord and spread controversial views among citizens.
In December Facebook and Twitter disabled a global network of 900 pages, groups and accounts sending pro-Trump messages. The fake news accounts managed to avoid detection as being inauthentic, and they used photos generated with the aid of artificial intelligence. The campaign was based in the U.S. and Vietnam.
Fake news website that has published claims about the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 reappearing, a billionaire wanting to recruit 1,000 women to bear his children, and an Adam Sandler death hoax. [173] [174] [175] LiveMonitor livemonitor.co.za Fake news website in South Africa, per Africa Check, an IFCN signatory. [133] lockerdome.com
SCIgen is a paper generator that uses context-free grammar to randomly generate nonsense in the form of computer science research papers.Its original data source was a collection of computer science papers downloaded from CiteSeer.
The damage caused due to fake news on social media has increased due to the growth of the internet penetration in India, which has risen from 137 million internet users in 2012 to over 600 million in 2019. [80] Fake news is also spread through Twitter. and Meta technologies from Facebook [81] [82] [83] and WhatsApp. [84] [85] [86]
Unethical journalistic practices existed in printed media for hundreds of years before the advent of the Internet. [36] [37] [38] Yellow journalism, reporting from a standard which is devoid of integrity and professional ethics, was pervasive during the time period in history known as the Gilded Age, and unethical journalists would engage in fraud by fabricating stories, interviews, and made ...