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Fake news is false or misleading information presented as news. Fake news often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue. Although false news has always been spread throughout history, the term "fake news" was first used in the 1890s when sensational reports in newspapers were common. Nevertheless, the term does not have a fixed definition and has been applied broadly to any type of false information. It's also been used by high-profile people to apply to any news unfavourable to them. Further, disinformation involves spreading false information with harmful intent and is sometimes generated and propagated by hostile foreign actors, particularly during elections. In some definitions, fake news includes satirical articles misinterpreted as genuine, and articles that employ sensationalist or clickbait headlines that are not supported in the text. Because of this diversity of types of false news, researchers are beginning to favour information disorder as a more neutral and informative term.
The prevalence of fake news has increased with the recent rise of social media, especially the Facebook News Feed, and this misinformation is gradually seeping into the mainstream media. Several factors have been implicated in the spread of fake news, such as political polarization, post-truth politics, motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, and social media algorithms.Fake news can reduce the impact of real news by competing with it. For example, a BuzzFeed News analysis found that the top fake news stories about the 2016 U.S. presidential election received more engagement on Facebook than top stories from major media outlets. It also particularly has the potential to undermine trust in serious media coverage. The term has at times been used to cast doubt upon credible news, and former U.S. president Donald Trump has been credited with popularizing the term by using it to describe any negative press coverage of himself. It has been increasingly criticized, due in part to Trump's misuse, with the British government deciding to avoid the term, as it is "poorly-defined" and "conflates a variety of false information, from genuine error through to foreign interference".
Multiple strategies for fighting fake news are currently being actively researched, for various types of fake news. Politicians in certain autocratic and democratic countries have demanded effective self-regulation and legally-enforced regulation in varying forms, of social media and web search engines.
On an individual scale, the ability to actively confront false narratives, as well as taking care when sharing information can reduce the prevalence of falsified information. However, it has been noted that this is vulnerable to the effects of confirmation bias, motivated reasoning and other cognitive biases that can seriously distort reasoning, particularly in dysfunctional and polarised societies. Inoculation theory has been proposed as a method to render individuals resistant to undesirable narratives. Because new misinformation pops up all the time, it is much better timewise to inoculate the population against accepting fake news in general (a process termed "prebunking"), instead of continually debunking the same repeated lies.
we were just watching an episode of the TV show FBI in which a woman ran up to an off duty agent and claimed some one had just attacked her
when he turned to help her, her partner hit him with a pistol and robbed him
this happened to me when I lived on 45th St in SE Portland back in 1981 - but...
Fake or Not?
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1034064448
At first, I suspected this was a faked end of war piece. Collectors of such things seem to prize "last ditch" German weapons. In his listing, the seller himself seems to have doubts.
I'd thought that these with the phosphate finish...
Looking for a TLR1 that is non functional or a fake or similar in shape. I have a M&P22 and I use with my holster that has retention on the light. Let me know what you got. Thanks
Can anyone help me if this knife is authentic or fake or provide some info?
Seems real. Quality is real nice. If faked they did a very impressive job.
Thank you
Fake eotech (not real, hints the price.)
Would rather trade. It Works fine for 22lr that’s what I have it on currently. It’s on a trainer rifle. I don’t think I would put it on anything over 9mm.
Nothing wrong with it but, it’s not real just to be clear. And no it’s dam sure not NVG...
The fake gold scam is going on in the PNW right now. Last week, I was loading up some building materials in the parking lot at Home Depot. A dusky guy who barely spoke English stopped his white SUV behind my vehicle and said, "Wanna buy some gold? I need money." Whereupon he held out a ring...
Watch the video below. Cool stuff, but the risk of abuse is high.
You might consider removing your pic from social media (including LinkedIn), and removing any custom voicemail message with your voice (ie., go back to the standard message).