I use the term "fake news" to refer to doctored social media posts that were never written by the purported…
Trump senior adviser's son, who used a transition team email but had, according to Pence, "no involvement in the transition…
Facebook's Patrick Walker assured a room full of journalists that Zuck's strategy to combat fake news will work. The plan…
I think and post about fake news a lot. Just the other day, I came across a Tweet that seemed…
Facebook is designed to keep your attention, not inform you with an unbiased view of the truth. If you follow…
In an experiment conducted over several weeks following Facebook's promotion of the fake Megyn Kelly story, the Post recorded which…
Don't trust your Facebook feed. All Facebook wants is for you to spend time on Facebook, so that they…
Today, Facebook announced that human curators will no longer write short descriptions that accompany trending topics on the site. Instead,…
The FBI fabricated a story to look like a news piece with an Associated Press byline about bomb threats against…
Did you hear that a shady group of antisocial hackers threatened to release nude pictures of Emma Watson after she…
Welcome to the "fakeosphere." Internet marketing veteran and analyst Jay Weintraub says fake blogs - or flogs - fake news…
Video news releases are pre-packaged broadcast segments designed to look like television news stories, that are funded by and scripted…
Among the video news releases uncovered were an item on ethanol plants aired on a Louisiana station that was created…
For almost an hour Saturday morning, the Associated Press reported that a 22-year-old San Francisco man, Benjamin Vanderford, had been…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Writers of parody news were saddened to learn Monday that merely writing their stories in the…
"King County prosecutors and sheriff's detectives asked the editors at the Eastside Journal, now called the King County Journal, to…