Context Yesterday (26/02), various news reports about a Willy Wonka-inspired experience in Glasgow started to circulate on social media. The articles, from outlets such as BBC News, Glasgow Live, and STV News, refer to ‘furious’ families who attended the underwhelming event. This included reports of the police being called as visitors deemed the event a …
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Terms like misinformation, disinformation and ‘fake news’ are all words we are familiar with. They are also all modifications of existing words: Information → misinformation Information → disinformation News → fake news On this blog I talk a lot about terminology, and the importance of understanding these terms when we use them in research, whether …
IntroductionI was recently looking at a fake news article that didn’t have the date the article was published anywhere on the page. I learnt a quick tip a few months ago to remedy this – you view the source code of the page and find the date in there, it normally looks something like:<meta property="article:published_time" …
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