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Jun 2, 2022 · Watchdog websites used the fake news label before the 2016 presidential election to identify misinformation, meaning false information, in news stories and other places across the internet. 2 Their research uncovered the fake news subset of disinformation, meaning falsehoods deliberately disseminated to serve the purposes of the distributors ...
Aug 18, 2021 · Roughly half of U.S. adults (48%) now say the government should take steps to restrict false information, even if it means losing some freedom to access and publish content, according to the survey of 11,178 adults conducted July 26-Aug. 8, 2021. That is up from 39% in 2018.
- Carrie Blazina
Jun 5, 2024 · Why truth matters. The Holocaust did happen. COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives. There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 US presidential election.
- Ullrich Ecker
Sep 19, 2023 · The influence of misinformation on the political decision-making process became a major concern in the United States after the 2016 Presidential election. We study the impact of “fake news” in the 2020 election cycle by conducting an online experiment the day before the “Super Tuesday” primary elections.
Jun 16, 2022 · The problem of fake news has been with us from the beginning of the Republic, and American democracy was even worse at dealing with it then than it is now.
Jan 26, 2022 · President Joe Biden asked the country on the first anniversary of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. But distinguishing truth from lies can be a difficult task when every day Americans read and hear false “facts”—misinformation—and deliberately misleading information created to cause harm—disinformation.
Mar 18, 2024 · In a major case testing the role of the First Amendment in the internet age, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday hears arguments focused on the federal government's ability to combat what it sees...
