Around 60 partners signed up for the GMA Network-led “Panata Kontra Fake News” (Pledge Against Fake News), including the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) and several print, broadcast, and online news ...

But in addition to its use as a pithy punchline for anti-media trolls, fake news has been weaponized by politicians over the past year to discredit media reports that they dislike.

With the 24-hour news cycle, the ease of sharing and spreading information via social media, and the increasing democratization of publishing tools, journalists and media consumers alike face a ...

News and media literacy the way it’s always been taught may not be the right response to fake news woes “Should we still think of news as a separate space, as a specific type of information?” By Shan ...

The funny thing about fake news is how mind-numbingly boring it can be. Not the fakes themselves — they’re constructed to be catnip clickbait to stoke the fires of rage of their intended ...

MIS Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 4 (December 2019), pp. 1343-1360, A1-A13 (31 pages) Fake news (i.e., misinformation) on social media has sharply increased in the past few years. We conducted a behavioral ...

Another way to spot fake news on social media is the use of "sensational headlines," while photos can often be presented out of context.

The Washington Post’ s Margaret Sullivan uses her latest column to call for journalists to stop using the phrase “fake news,” a term reporters and activists have used over the past few ...

Obviously “fake” news, false stories, deliberately created to misinform, are only part of the problem. Another is a more familiar tactic for the “traditional” media: using verifiable facts ...

Researchers at Lancaster University are drawing connections between the language used in April Fools stories and so-called "fake news." ...