Filter bubbles and fake news

DiFranzo, Dominic; Gloria-Garcia, Kristine

doi:10.1145/3055153

Cited by 94 publications

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“…The term "fake news" has been described as "problematic," "ambiguous," "inadequate and misleading," and "unhelpful" (Albright 2017;DiFranzo and Gloria-Garcia 2017;HLEG 2018;Wardle 2017). This is, in large part, related to the fact that the term does not have one fixed meaning (Habgood-Coote 2019).…”

Section: Fake News: One Term Three Conceptsmentioning

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From Novelty to Normalization? How Journalists Use the Term “Fake News” in their Reporting

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During recent years, worries about fake news have been a salient aspect of mediated debates. However, the ubiquitous and fuzzy usage of the term in news reporting has led more and more scholars and other public actors to call for its abandonment in public discourse altogether. Given this status as a controversial but arguably effective buzzword in news coverage, we know surprisingly little about exactly how journalists use the term in their reporting. By means of a quantitative content analysis, this study offers empirical evidence on this question. Using the case of Austria, where discussions around fake news have been ubiquitous during recent years, we analyzed all news articles mentioning the term "fake news" in major daily newspapers between 2015 and 2018 (N = 2,967). We find that journalistic reporting on fake news shifts over time from mainly describing the threat of disinformation online, to a more normalized and broad usage of the term in relation to attacks on legacy news media. Furthermore, news reports increasingly use the term in contexts completely unrelated to disinformation or media attacks. In using the term this way, journalists arguably contribute not only to term salience but also to a questionable normalization process.

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Section: Fake News: One Term Three Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Novelty to Normalization? How Journalists Use the Term “Fake News” in their Reporting

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“…fact-checkers and journalists) with ranking and prioritisation (Wiebe and Riloff, 2005;Cazalens et al, 2018). As a companion to technological and fact-checking approaches, information literacy is promoted as a mitigating force against misinformation and disinformation online (DiFranzo and Gloria-Garcia, 2017). The assumption is that, if the end-consumer or media professional understands how to view information critically, they will be less inclined to believe or transmit misinformation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Understanding the Role of Human Values in the Spread of Misinformation

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Piccolo²,

Perfumi³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Conference for Truth and Trust Online 2019

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Social media platforms are often implicated in the spread of misinformation for encouraging the behaviour of rapid-sharing without adequate mechanisms for verifying information. To counter this phenomena, much related research in computer science has been focusing on developing tools to detect misinformation, to rank fact-check-worthy claims, and to understand their spread patterns, while psychosocial approaches have been focused on understanding information literacy, ideology and partisanship. In this paper, we demonstrate through a survey of nearly 100 people that the Human Values could have a significant influence on the way people perceive and share information. We argue that integrating a valuesoriented perspective into computational approaches for handling misinformation could encourage misinformation prevention, and assist in predicting and ranking misinformation.

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“…The acknowledged influence of social media on the results of the UK's Brexit referendum and Donald Trump's election in the US, for example, are examples of the magnitude of the power granted to the online world to transform reality [3]. In such context, misleading information 2 , be it deliberately false or not, is continuously harming individuals and societies by threatening democratic political processes and distorting values that shape public opinion in a variety of sectors, 1 Although popular, the term "fake news" has been overused and with controversial meanings.…”

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confidence: 99%