This statement, by GMA Network chair Felipe Gozon, sums up the vision of a landmark coalition of major media organizations and academic institutions launched last week, to combat fake news and ...

In 2017, fake news was everywhere. It was behind Macedonian teens buying BMWs and at Russian troll farms, as well as in viral memes and on Donald Trump’s Twitter feed. It was named word of the year by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 targets. Be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. There is no denying that the country is as divided as ever – and ...

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 ...

It turns out April 1 st is good for at least one thing – helping language researchers identify more malicious “fake news.” No joke. Ph.D. student Edward Dearden and his advisor Dr. Alistair Baron, of ...