Internet history, web culture, and the politics of technology
From the Associated Press: Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology looked at more than 126,000 stories tweeted millions of times between 2006 and the end of 2016 — before Donald Trump took office but during the combative presidential campaign. They found that “fake news” sped through Twitter “farther, faster, deeper and more broadly than the… Continue reading AP: Study finds false stories travel way faster than the truth
The Wikimedia Foundation (which operates Wikipedia and its associated community projects like Creative Commons) funded new research into the supply and distribution of misinformation, fake news and falsified content. The research provides a helpful framework that makes it easier to discuss this complex and tricky topic. The representative chart below divides trends of fake news… Continue reading A framework for understanding fake news
Facebook is still trying to do something about stopping misinformation from going viral on their platform.
The most popular apps are competing against each other, sort of like a duel that's casting a shadow on the open web.
Demand isn't necessarily correlated or even triggered by supply, but we don't have any studies about demand in fake news.
Margarita Noriega 