Research note: The scale of Facebook’s problem depends upon how ‘fake news’ is classified | HKS Misinformation Review

Ushering in the contemporary ‘fake news’ crisis, Craig Silverman of Buzzfeed News reported that it outperformed mainstream news on Facebook in the three months prior to the 2016 US presidential elections. Here the report’s methods and findings are revisited for 2020. Examining Facebook user engagement of election-related stories, and applying Silverman’s classification of fake news, […]

26 Oct 2020 ... research note Summary. The 'fake news' problem around the US elections as observed in 2016 has worsened on Facebook in 2020. In the ...

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