Lie of the Year: Fake news. Ignoring the facts has long been a staple of political speech. Every day, politicians overstate some statistic, distort their opponents’ positions, or simply tell out- and- out whoppers. Surrogates and pundits spread the spin. Then there’s fake news, the phenomenon that is now sweeping, well, the news. Fake news is made- up stuff, masterfully manipulated to look like credible journalistic reports that are easily spread online to large audiences willing to believe the fictions and spread the word.

In 2. 01. 6, the prevalence of political fact abuse – promulgated by the words of two polarizing presidential candidates and their passionate supporters – gave rise to a spreading of fake news with unprecedented impunity. Fake news: Hillary Clinton is running a child sex ring out of a pizza shop. Fake news: Democrats want to impose Islamic law in Florida. Fake news: Thousands of people at a Donald Trump rally in Manhattan chanted, . Clinton emboldened her detractors and turned off undecideds with a lawyerly parsing of facts that left many feeling that she was lying.

Her enemies ran wild. Each year, Politi. Fact awards a . In 2. With such a deep backlash against being truthful in political speech, no one person (though there are world- class frontrunners) and no one political claim perfectly stands out as the dust settles from an extraordinary campaign. Because of its powerful symbolism in an election year filled with rampant and outrageous lying - - Politi. Fact is naming Fake News the 2.

Fake news is nothing new. But bogus stories can reach more people more quickly via social media than what good old-fashioned viral emails could accomplish in years past.

When we can’t agree on basic facts - - or even that there are such things as facts - - how do we talk to each other? It’s a media ecosystem where . Before fake news, there were electronic message boards where people shared conspiracy theories and emails instructing you to FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!! Before the computer, there were anonymous pamphlets and chain letters sent through the mail. But in 2. 01. 6, most viral lies spread on Facebook. They were reinforced by Google searches, in which stories from dubious sites jumped to the top of your screen based on traffic. Bad actors would create fictitious Web pages that people couldn’t resist sharing: claims that Pope Francis endorsed Donald Trump, or that Hillary Clinton sold weapons to ISIS, or that she helped fund ISIS.

Hoping to encourage people to be better informed, Facebook after the 2. Ironically, Facebook’s technology and good intentions fueled the rise of fake news in 2. Creators of fake news found that they could capture so much interest that they could make money off fake news through automated advertising that rewards high traffic to their sites. A man running a string of fake news sites from the Los Angeles suburbs told NPR he made between $1. And we're looking at things, like working with third parties, helping to label false news, doing the things we can do to make it clearer what's a hoax on Facebook. That makes it seem normal, even when it’s just crazy, made- up stories that develop under the radar before blowing up into viral memes.

1. Fake news websites (also referred to as hoax news websites) are Internet websites that deliberately publish fake news—hoaxes, propaganda, and.
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5. Google said it would ban purveyors of fake news on the web from using its online advertising service, AdSense.

Take, for example, the rumor that Clinton and her campaign chairman, John Podesta, were running a child sex ring out of a pizza shop. Buzz. Feed reported that the rumor seemed to start from a Twitter account associated with white supremacy.

From there, users on the online forums 4chan and Reddit argued (perhaps facetiously) that evidence for the theory was to be found in Podesta’s stolen emails, which Wiki. Leaks had posted on the Internet weeks before. Podesta’s repeated use of the word . Fake news sites, such as Your. News. Wire. com, tap- news. USA Newsflash, turned the story into Facebook posts that earned roughly 1. Other fake news had less convoluted origins.

Fake news reports soar on social media, where links are given the same weighting regardless of source, and particularly on Facebook, where there is a potential.

Paul Horner runs a string of websites, some looking deceptively like mainstream news organizations. He created a post that said protesters at Trump rallies were paid $3,5. He told the Washington Post he knew it wasn’t true but wrote it as a parody that could make him money if people actually believed it.

Trump’s nominee for national security adviser, retired Army Lt. Flynn’s son, who had a role on the transition team, repeated the Clinton . Readers voted the 2. We considered Clinton’s defensive statements about her emails. That was False; some classified material did end up there. She said that FBI director James . Comey called her actions careless and was careful not to endorse her comments.

Since the Tampa Bay Times started Politi. Fact in 2. 00. 7, no other major politician has a worse record for accuracy, with more than 7. Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire. This year’s unfounded Trump claims included: That he opposed the war in Iraq before it started. This is False, even though he made the claim again and again. That widespread voter fraud is happening in the United States.

This is Pants on Fire; both Democratic and Republican election officials say it’s not true. Trump said it during the election when he was down in the polls, and he said it after he won, too. That Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the assassination of President John F.

Kennedy: Pants on Fire. Trump seems to have gotten this one from a report in the supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer. On Election Day, when asked if Trump was honest and trustworthy, 6. But when asked if Clinton was honest and trustworthy, voters were almost equally dubious; 6. Clinton’s Politi. Fact scorecard reflected much more accuracy than Trump’s, but her detractors saw it more as calculation than candor.

You guys took everything that Donald Trump said so literally. They understood that sometimes — when you have a conversation with people, whether it’s around the dinner table or at a bar — you’re going to say things, and sometimes you don’t have all the facts to back it up. But buoyed by those who saw him as more authentic than choreographed pols, he took a bold approach to truthfulness – essentially saying: Catch me if you can – and even if you do, it doesn’t matter. That’s a dangerous state for fact- checkers - - and a free society - - to be in, said Jacob T. Levy, a libertarian and political scientist at Mc.

Gill University. But 2. That suggests something new and dangerous. People who are credulous enough to believe fake news will also believe and follow elected officials who lie. Evan Mc. Mullin of Utah, a former CIA officer, ran for president as a conservative independent alternative to Trump and has been warning fellow conservatives to support factual accuracy as a means of resisting government coercion. Mc. Mullin listed on Twitter 1. Americans can resist authoritarianism, including following many credible sources of news.

Fact- checkers and people who care about democratic governance have to keep asserting the importance of accurate information, even as the media figures out new ways to tell the truth in more compelling ways.. The Liquid Psychologist watch in english with subtitles 4320p.