Fake News Trumps Real News in Facebook Traffic Report

“While some hoaxes can be completely debunked, a greater amount of content, including from mainstream sources, often gets the basic idea right but some details wrong or omitted”, he wrote.

While you can measure the proliferation of fake news sites or how many times their articles were cited or quoted in terms of people reposting them, it is hard to know exactly how much impact that misinformation generates, according to Blevins.

Later, when asked if he thought fake news helped Trump get elected…

Perhaps it’s time Horner went out of business so that he realizes that actions do have consequences and one of them is four years of President Donald Trump. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. “His followers don’t fact-check anything – they’ll post everything, believe anything”, Horner said. “I posted a fake ad on Craigslist”, he told The Washington Post. If they crack down on a couple, I’ll just use others.

“This is an area where I believe we must proceed very carefully, though”, said Zuckerberg, who asserted that “more than 99 percent of what people see is authentic”.

There were a handful of fake anti-Trump stories that made the rounds, including one that claims Mike Pence called Michelle Obama the “most vulgar first lady we’ve ever had”. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg similarly downplayed the popularity of false news stories in a Facebook post on November 12.

No one can deny the power of the Internet, good or bad, and no one knows it better than Facebook creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and another Internet giant, Google, for criticisms over fake news that swirled during the recently concluded US presidential election.

Pichai said there should be “no situation where fake news gets distributed” and committed to making improvements.

In the days since, two of the world’s largest internet companies – Facebook and Google – faced backlash for influencing the election outcome by allowing the spread of fake and false news on their sites.

Prior to the final three months of the presidential campaign, top election stories from major outlets had strongly outperformed fake news, BuzzFeed reported.

Facebook reaches 1.8 billion people around the globe and researches suggest that almost half of American adults rely on Facebook as a news source.

“His supporters were under the belief that people were getting paid to protest at their rallies, and that’s just insane”, Horner told the Post.

Horner even quoted himself by name in the fake story, something he does in many of his posts.