"Hoaxy visualizes how fake news spreads across social media"
The article discusses how fake news has 'extreme offline consequences', and that it's effects can be damaging and blinding to what is true and what is fake. There are also mentions of Google and Facebook, and how as a result of bringing attention to this issue, Facebook has asked its users to rate headlines for truthfulness in stories being posted. Other methods have also been introduced to the issue, where 'Hoaxy', a project from IU's Center for Complex Networks and System Research, is a search engine that tracks the spread of fake news stories, visually.
- 132 sites responsible for writing fake news stories
I think this whole movement of this investigation is well thought out, given that there is now objective and concrete evidence of how fake stories are derived of, and how the audience has to now acknowledge this issue, and how they can try to avoid it in the future and spot fake news.
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