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Кампания по выборам президента США помимо всякоразных официальных скандалов типа "заявлений ФБР" запомнилась еще и огромным количеством фейковых новостей, которые разносились со скоростью света среди избирателей - The scourge of the U.S. election: Fake news, exploding on social media, is seeping into the mainstream
The item was part of a burgeoning phenomenon in U.S. politics: partly or mostly made-up “news” items casting one presidential candidate or the other in a negative light, and - thanks to the immense power of Facebook and other social media - seen by millions of Americans.
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“It’s really disconcerting the scale that misinformation can achieve relatively quickly and with relatively little effort,” says Craig Silverman, Canadian chief of the Buzzfeed website. “It’s driving divisions between people … It has made it very difficult for the public square to have some reasonable debate.”
Silverman spearheaded a study recently of “hyper-partisan” Facebook pages, finding that during a two-week period, 38 per cent of news material on three right-wing pages and 19 per cent on left-leaning ones were partly or mostly false.
Ничего нового - вбросы под соусом "новостей" воспринимаются публикой на ура, а их аутентичность никого не волнует.