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Status Notes Sources American News americannews.com Defunct Published a false story claiming actor Denzel Washington endorsed Donald Trump for U.S. president. The fictional headline led to thousands of people sharing it on Facebook, a prominent example of fake news spreading on the social network prior to the 2016 presidential election. [11]
Published a false claim with a Photoshopped image as evidence. Its Facebook page was hijacked by a businessman based in North Macedonia in 2019. The original owner had worked with Liberty Writers News and USApoliticstoday.com, one of the original sites in the network of Macedonian fake news sites.
To track junk news shared on Facebook during the 2018 midterm elections, the Junk News Aggregator Archived 2021-01-27 at the Wayback Machine was launched by the Computational Propaganda Project of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. This Aggregator is a public platform, offering three interactive tools for tracking in near real ...
Facebook discusses with Yahoo! about the latter possibly acquiring the former, for $1 billion. [259] 2007: January 10: Product: Facebook launches m.facebook.com and officially announces mobile support. [321] 2007: May 24: Product: Facebook announces Facebook Platform for developers to build applications on top of Facebook's social graph. [322 ...
The following is a list of websites, separated by owner, that have both been considered by journalists and researchers as distributing false news - or otherwise participating in disinformation - and have been designated by journalists and researchers as likely being linked to political actors in the United States.
An IRC bot is a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another user. An IRC bot differs from a regular client in that instead of providing interactive access to IRC for a human user, it performs automated functions.
A social bot, also described as a social AI or social algorithm, is a software agent that communicates autonomously on social media.The messages (e.g. tweets) it distributes can be simple and operate in groups and various configurations with partial human control (hybrid) via algorithm.
Facebook has been criticized heavily for 'tracking' users, even when logged out of the site. Australian technologist Nik Cubrilovic discovered that when a user logs out of Facebook, the cookies from that login are still kept in the browser, allowing Facebook to track users on websites that include "social widgets" distributed by the social ...