{"id":3383,"date":"2018-01-22T15:20:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:11","slug":"field-guide-to-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/01\/22\/field-guide-to-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Guide to Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Dartmouth college analysed the extent of election news manipulation in the 2016 USA presidential election. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~nyhan\/fake-news-2016.pdf\">\u00a0They concluded<\/a> that approximately 1 in 4 Americans visited a fake news website from October 7th to November 14th, 2016.\u00a0 Trump supporters visited the most fake news web-sites, which were overwhelmingly pro-Trump.<br \/>\nAs a result of this continuing concern about fake news <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdatalab.org\/\">Public Data Lab<\/a> and First Draft collaborated to develop a <a href=\"https:\/\/fakenews.publicdatalab.org\/\">free, open-access guide<\/a> to help students, journalists and researchers investigate misleading and viral content, memes and trolling practices online.\u00a0 The field guide is now available.<br \/>\nSee more discussions of their concerns and initiatives on the <a href=\"https:\/\/firstdraftnews.com\/field-guide-fakenews-infodisorders\/\">First Draft News website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Dartmouth college analysed the extent of election news manipulation in the 2016 USA presidential election. \u00a0They concluded that approximately 1 in 4 Americans visited a fake news website from October 7th to November 14th, 2016.\u00a0 Trump supporters visited the most fake news web-sites, which were overwhelmingly pro-Trump. As a result of this continuing concern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,303],"tags":[41,115,64,241,242,95],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","category-politics","category-us-politics","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-journalism","tag-media-and-communication","tag-politics","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}