{"id":29945,"date":"2018-01-20T13:38:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29945"},"modified":"2018-01-20T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:38:57","slug":"fake-news-defining-and-defeating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29945","title":{"rendered":"Fake News: Defining and Defeating"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fake News: Defining and Defeating<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

Real techniques for identifying fake news and disinformation<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Following U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to present his media critics with so-called \u201cfake news awards<\/a>,\u201d it is more important than ever to define what \u201cfake news\u201d actually is, and what it is not.<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s repeated<\/a> accusations of fake news are dangerous both for journalists around the world, and for the integrity of free and fair democratic discourse in America.<\/p>\n

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Research<\/a> by the Committee to Protect Journalists shows<\/a> that \u201cwhen public figures and political leaders lob insults at the media, they encourage self-censorship and expose journalists to unnecessary risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Internationally, in the words<\/a> of another pressure group which defends journalists, Reporters Without Borders, \u201cPredators of press freedom have seized on the notion of \u2018fake news\u2019 to muzzle the media on the pretext of fighting false information.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of @DFRLab\u2019s core functions is to identify, expose, and explain deliberate falsehood online, including what is often termed \u201cfake news\u201d.<\/p>\n

We publish our methods, to demonstrate how deliberate falsehood, and deliberate mislabelling by authoritarian regimes, can actually be exposed. With transparent methods, we do not assume the credibility of our reporting; we prove it.<\/p>\n

What is \u201cfake\u00a0news\u201d?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

There is no universally-accepted definition of \u201cfake news.\u201d BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan has identified three sorts<\/a> of fake news. According to Huffington Post blogger Dr. John Johnson, there are five sorts<\/a>. A list by Dr. Claire Wardle, research director of not-for-profit group First Draft and now of the Harvard Shorenstein Center, features seven sorts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a working definition, @DFRLab considers that fake news<\/strong> is \u201cdeliberately presenting false information as news.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fake News: Defining and Defeating Real techniques for identifying fake news and disinformation Following U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to present his media critics with so-called \u201cfake news awards,\u201d it is more important than ever to define what \u201cfake news\u201d actually is, and what it is not. President Trump\u2019s repeated accusations of fake news are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3717,7844,2779,18033,462,512,14273,570,655],"class_list":["post-29945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-disinformation","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-fake-news-awards","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-medium","tag-news","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29946,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29945\/revisions\/29946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}