Friday, September 7, 2018

Fake content - that's easy for a librarian to spot, right?

We've all heard a lot about fake news, Russian trolls, and other ways news and social media sites have been manipulated. Do you think it's easy to spot a deceptive post? I was confident that I would easily find them all in this recent New York Times article. But it wasn't as easy as I thought. How will you do?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/04/technology/facebook-influence-campaigns-quiz.html 

Reporters Keith Collins and Sheera Frenkel report that one strategy used by these groups is to post seemingly innocuous content to begin with and to build up a base of readers. Then the content starts to shift into much more polarized issues and views. The image below is a good example of that strategy. 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/04/technology/facebook-influence-campaigns-quiz.html

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