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Section size for Fake news (95 sections)
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Defining fake news	9,617	24,119
Roots	2,434	2,434
Popularity and viral spread	6,187	6,187
Its damaging effects	5,881	5,881
Types of fake news	1,902	1,902
Criticism of the term	5,440	5,440
Identification	4,070	6,446
Online identification	2,376	2,376
Tackling and suppression strategies	1,749	41,015
Strategies regarding the perpetrator	45	6,050
Promotion of facts over emotions	1,804	1,804
Technique rebuttal	1,053	1,053
Individual counteraction	1,790	1,790
Backfire effect	1,358	1,358
Strategies regarding carriers	38	22,084
Regulation of social media	1,787	1,787
General strategy	2,878	2,878
Fact-checking	2,286	2,286
Facebook	2,597	2,597
Google	1,902	1,902
Legal and criminal sanctions in general	10,596	10,596
Strategies regarding the recipient	42	11,132
Cognitive biases of recipient	2,059	2,059
Nudges as reflection prompts	2,518	2,518
Media critical thinking skills	515	515
Mental immune health, inoculation and prebunking markup removed; cannot link (help)	5,998	5,998
History	14	34,743
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Medieval	878	878
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19th century	3,799	3,799
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Deepfakes and shallowfakes	5,568	5,568
Bots on social media	9,783	9,783
Internet trolls	3,690	3,690
Fake news hoaxes	7,345	7,345
Donald Trump's misuse of term	11,821	11,821
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Malta	2,841	2,841
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Poland	2,164	2,164
Romania	750	750
Russia	3,252	3,252
Serbia	4,023	4,023
Spain	1,955	1,955
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Asia	13	40,698
China	5,015	7,162
Hong Kong	2,147	2,147
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Clinton / Jones photo

Intentionally deceptive photoshopped image of Hillary Clinton over a 1977 photo of Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones

It should read "doctored" or "altered" rather than "photoshopped". There's nothing here to indicate any particular brand of software was used, if any, or if this manipulation was the result of conventional photographic techniques. 24.51.192.49 (talk) 18:21, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: EDT 251 - Research Skills and Strategies

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 6 March 2023 and 13 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Qianj14jc (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Qianj14jc (talk) 23:16, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of the term “fake news“

this article begs for an explanation of the term. Google’s Ngram indicates it began to appear in 2001 but wasn’t used much. It really took off in 2013. Can anyone suggest where it came from and why it suddenly became a buzzword? In particular, it appears to precede the Trump presidency. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 04:20, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It was popularised in the Cardiacs' song Dive with the lyrics:

Anna Ford hammers a post into a cup of mud claiming it is the ground
Really then anything is better than that
Is better than watching your fake news win in the end

2A00:23EE:1530:160D:30E8:1D87:C2BE:526A (talk) 18:57, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The article is absent about the term "fake news" and how it became popular in history but gives an entire section for Trump.

What do RS say? Slatersteven (talk) 10:50, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Appears to be a rather lengthy explanation of the term in the article. O3000, Ret. (talk) 15:09, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Digital Media and Information in Society

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 August 2023 and 14 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): DroopyB (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Stevesuny (talk) 14:08, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Use of AI as fake news as a potential subtopic?

I've noticed that the article lacks most mention of any sort of use of AI used to create fake news. The article itself occasionally mentions using AI to counter it, but not to using AI to create fake news, other than briefly when talking about fake news in Mexico. Should a subtopic be made dedicated to AI creating fake news, or should it be placed in a different section? DroopyB (talk) 14:16, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have any sources discussing this as a wide issue? Slatersteven (talk) 14:17, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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