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“Fake News” Is Not Simply False Information: A Concept Explication and Taxonomy of Online Content

Molina, Maria D. ; Sundar, S. Shyam ; Le, Thai ; Lee, Dongwon

The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills), 2021-02, Vol.65 (2), p.180-212 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications

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  • Título:
    “Fake News” Is Not Simply False Information: A Concept Explication and Taxonomy of Online Content
  • Autor: Molina, Maria D. ; Sundar, S. Shyam ; Le, Thai ; Lee, Dongwon
  • Assuntos: Algorithms ; Classification ; Definitions ; False information ; Information ; Internet ; Journalism ; Machine learning ; News ; News media ; Taxonomy
  • É parte de: The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills), 2021-02, Vol.65 (2), p.180-212
  • Descrição: As the scourge of “fake news” continues to plague our information environment, attention has turned toward devising automated solutions for detecting problematic online content. But, in order to build reliable algorithms for flagging “fake news,” we will need to go beyond broad definitions of the concept and identify distinguishing features that are specific enough for machine learning. With this objective in mind, we conducted an explication of “fake news” that, as a concept, has ballooned to include more than simply false information, with partisans weaponizing it to cast aspersions on the veracity of claims made by those who are politically opposed to them. We identify seven different types of online content under the label of “fake news” (false news, polarized content, satire, misreporting, commentary, persuasive information, and citizen journalism) and contrast them with “real news” by introducing a taxonomy of operational indicators in four domains—message, source, structure, and network—that together can help disambiguate the nature of online news content.
  • Editor: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications
  • Idioma: Inglês

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