Kerby Anderson A new study by three political scientists concluded that concerns about the impact of fake news are overblown. You may have heard that fake news elected Donald Trump. Supposedly Trump voters were duped into believing false information and cast their vote on inaccurate facts. The recent study by professors at Princeton, Dartmouth, and the University of Exeter debunks…
Read NowKerby Anderson With all this talk about fake news, you might think this is a recent phenomenon. Jarrett Stepman provides a history of fake news in the US and the attempts government and other entities have used to try to stop it. He reminds us that the Founding Fathers were well aware of the power of the press. Many of…
Read NowBy: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – January 7, 2018 It turns out the people likeliest to read false stories are the ones who read lots of hard news too. This just in—“fake news” didn’t elect Donald Trump. Democrats have argued that Trump voters were duped by fringe websites that traffic in misinformation, and that if those voters were better informed,…
Read NowBy: William M. Briggs – stream.org – January 3, 2018 You know it when you see it, but good luck defining fake news. That’s why there will always be disagreements between what is “fake news” and what isn’t. On the last day of bad old last year, Lake Superior State University released its 43rd annual List of Words Banished from…
Read NowBy: Rachel Kraus – mashable.com – January 2, 2018 A new study confirms your worst fears about fake news in the U.S. — it’s widespread, skews pro-Trump, and is mostly consumed by your conservative uncle. Oh, and fact checking hasn’t worked at all. A group of academic researchers have published what they are calling the first scientific, data-based study of…
Read NowBy: Jarrett Stepman – dailysignal.com – January 01, 2018 The Founding Fathers were well aware of the power of the press, for good or ill. Fake news isn’t suddenly ruining America, but putting government in charge of deciding what news is fake will. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, numerous media outlets ran stories claiming that many…
Read NowBy Julia A. Seymour and Aly Nielsen – Newsbusters.org – December 18, 2017 Liberal media bias has existed for years, but in 2017, it appeared to reach unprecedented levels given the media’s hostility to President Donald Trump. The media distorted many stories in 2017, in many different ways. They ranged from lies such as Al Gore’s claim that “Superstorm Sandy” proved…
Read NowKerby Anderson Recently I was asked to be on a two-hour radio interview to talk about fake news. Initially, I wondered if I would have enough to discuss for two hours. As it turns out, there was more than enough to talk about. Now there is even more to discuss since universities are beginning to post what they call a…
Read NowFake news or conspiracy theory? Or the most epic troll since Dan Rather was conned into accepting forged documents about George Bush? Or a hilarious amalgam of all three? All elements of this story are as yet unknown, but what is unfolding has the makings of historical high comedy. Here’s a rundown. Buzzfeed, a website whose specialty is celebrity tittle-tattle,…
Read NowKerby Anderson Fake news is still in the news. In fact, PolitiFact designated “Fake News” as the “2016 Lie of the Year.” Some of the examples they cited are: “Hillary Clinton is running a child sex ring out of a pizza shop” and “Thousands of people at a Donald Trump rally chanted: We hate Muslims, we hate blacks, we want…
Read NowYes, fake news is a real problem. I’m not talking about the random garbage that shows up in your Facebook feed about aliens and giant conspiracies that send people into tinfoil rage spirals. I’m talking about what is presented as news by legitimate news outlets. Much of what you see presented as news on cable news networks is not news…
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