Difference between revisions of "Talk:Fake News"

Latest revision as of 21:04, 4 April 2019

This relates quite a bit to my topic (I reference it a few times in my own wiki article), so I had a couple thoughts! I added the section at the bottom about addressing the problem of fake news. There have been some recent developments on Google that involve fact-checking their search results, so I included information about that as well as a reference! This section could definitely still be expanded but I thought it was an important point to address, so hopefully this framework is helpful in helping you lay out any additional information you'd like to include! - Lauren

I just added a large section about Facebook's new update but am having some trouble formatting my references if anyone wants to do that!

I really like this article because I think the topic of fake news should discussed more on social network sites. There are numerous news channels on social media sites and most people cannot distinguish what is legitimate and what it not. I like how you gave examples of fake news on your article and ongoing efforts to decrease how frequent they appear. I have studied fake news more in depth in other classes and another great example of them are clickbaits. They are designed to attract the attention of the user with exaggerated titles but the content is often poorly written. I also added a section on how fake news creates misinformed users because of the circulation of these over friend networks and how they impact people who read them.

- erick

Drew

Great start so far with your research and writing. Try to focus on reducing the granularity of your examples and think more about the big picture/concepts that help explain your topic. Be concise in your ethical issues and see how you can leverage examples to support these claims. Adjusting your formatting to use subheaders or bulleted lists might also help organize your information in a more logical way.

Allyson

I enjoy how you talked about fake news from a historical standpoint - you looked into where it originated from and successfully analyzed the motives of people who spread fake news. I think you can also examine and look into how fake news may actually sometimes have no motive at all and perhaps some people spread news that they genuinely believe to be true and are unaware they are even spreading this news. This specifically happens on twitter and other social media where anyone can be a journalist in some ways. Overall, I enjoy your approach to analyzing fake news and the implications it has.