[aisle] "fake news" question

[BROOKE NELSON]

Oxford published this study demonstrating why you are pretty much only
finding right-wing fake news:
http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/polarization-partisanship-and-junk-news/
(short
version from study: "We demonstrate that (1) on Twitter, a network of Trump
supporters shares the widest range of known junk news sources and
circulates more junk news than all the other groups put together; (2) on
Facebook, extreme hard right pages—distinct from Republican pages—share the
widest range of known junk news sources and circulate more junk news than
all the other audiences put together; (3) on average, the audiences for
junk news on Twitter share a wider range of known junk news sources than
audiences on Facebook’s public pages.") Here's an article about the study
from the Guardian
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/sharing-fake-news-us-rightwing-study-trump-university-of-oxford>
.

That said, there isn't a ton of info in here, but this is a start:
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39592010


On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:14 AM Lorna Code via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I would like these too. I will be doing a unit on Evaluating websites,
> news, etc in December.
> Lorna Code
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> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:03 AM Caroline Fox Anvick via AISLE <
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>> Hello all,
>> I teach a research class to high schoolers that discusses bad sources of
>> information (unreliable websites, biased information, fake news, etc.). I
>> love using examples of these bad sources - the more outrageous, the better!
>> My problem is that most of the examples I find tend to be from far
>> right-wing sources (Pizza-gate, birtherism, Kellyanne Conway's "alternative
>> facts," etc.). My own personal politics aside, I don't want kids who
>> identify as more conservative to feel like their team is being unfairly
>> picked on. Does anyone have some good examples of fake news-ish type things
>> from the Left?
>> Thanks so much!
>> MAILMAN_MIMEDEFANG
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