Poynter's index of unreliable news websites - yes fake news is a real business and it sways our opinions and even votes
Misinformation is a thriving industry on the internet, supported by social media shares, advertising dollars and political donations.
In the United States, scores of research reports try to measure how falsehoods spread online. These studies often require lists of untrustworthy “news” sources, but many of these lists have grown out-of-date and incomplete.
To create the index, Poynter combined five major lists, then eliminated the sites that were no longer active. They only used lists that were public and curated by established journalists or academics, contained original data (rather than information from other lists), stated their criteria for inclusion and defined how they graded different sites.
This is only phase one of the IFCN’s unreliable news index. The next phase of the project will be to automatically remove inactive sites, add sites by following URL redirects (which often lead to new fake news schemes) and harvest related domains.
I wonder if any browser extensions yet support this curated index in terms of alerting to problems with a news source. I know of one called "Trusted News for Google Chrome" but it is not based specifically on this Poynter index, but uses some of the sources Poynter was referencing.
See www.poynter.org/ifcn/unreliabl…
#fakenews
source https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-355c-ca86-a227-f15540048356
In the United States, scores of research reports try to measure how falsehoods spread online. These studies often require lists of untrustworthy “news” sources, but many of these lists have grown out-of-date and incomplete.
To create the index, Poynter combined five major lists, then eliminated the sites that were no longer active. They only used lists that were public and curated by established journalists or academics, contained original data (rather than information from other lists), stated their criteria for inclusion and defined how they graded different sites.
This is only phase one of the IFCN’s unreliable news index. The next phase of the project will be to automatically remove inactive sites, add sites by following URL redirects (which often lead to new fake news schemes) and harvest related domains.
I wonder if any browser extensions yet support this curated index in terms of alerting to problems with a news source. I know of one called "Trusted News for Google Chrome" but it is not based specifically on this Poynter index, but uses some of the sources Poynter was referencing.
See www.poynter.org/ifcn/unreliabl…
#fakenews
source https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-355c-ca86-a227-f15540048356
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