Fake News: Fake News and Social Media

A blog post detailing how Wikipedia is combatting fake news.

This searchable database features ads of political importance that have appeared on Google and partner properties. This database includes ads related to elections or issues that feature a federal candidate or officeholder. It is updated once a week. Find ads featuring federal candidates or current elected federal officeholders, and see who paid for them.

Former Google senior policy manager, William Echikson, warns of the dangers of mimicking the behaviour of authoritarian states in efforts to combat fake news.

This tool for evaluating the spread of junk news on Facebook was built by the Computational Propaganda project (COMPROP) at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford.

Sam Levin from The Guardian investigates Facebook's "war room" designed to tackle fake news.

Geoffrey A Fowler provides some insight as to why fake news is so compelling.

A probe by the news agency indicates that the network is still being used to encourage violence against the Muslim group in Myanmar despite the tech firm promising to tackle the issue.

A report on how social media platforms are combatting fake news, but how individuals' digital literacy capabilities could do more.

Rolling updates as representatives from nine parliaments question the social media company, who refused to send CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Mike Caulfield investigates the claim that fake news spreads on Facebook.

Casey Newton in The Verge reports on America's growing distrust of Facebook.

Damian Collins warns of ‘deepfake films’ showing doctored footage of politicians.

Facebook's page on initiatives to stop disinformation and false news.

Andrew Hutchinson from Social Media Today examines which stories on Facebook receive the most attention.

A BBC interview with Steve Hatch.

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One of the largest studies into how fake news spread across Twitter around the 2016 US Presidential campaign.

As measles outbreaks in the United States and other countries continue to get worse, Twitter is introducing new search tools meant to help users find credible resources about vaccines. It will also stop auto-suggesting search terms that would lead users to misinformation about vaccines.

Tim Walker in The Guardian reports on how the president accused the social media platform of ‘stifling free speech’ after it labeled his false claims about voter fraud.