[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4cast #516: Fake news

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OPLIN 4cast #516: Fake news
November 16th, 2016

[image: Woman screaming in megaphone. Propaganda social media communication
concept] In the search to find explanations for Donald Trump’s surprising
victory in last week’s election, many people are pointing the finger of
blame at Facebook for not doing more to suppress fake news stories in their
News Feed. For librarians, who have long tried to explain to their users
the difference between trustworthy information and suspicious search
results, there must be some small sense of vindication. As Miguel Figueroa
wrote on the Library of the Future blog
<http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/future/blog/mon-11142016-2243>,
“Authenticity can be interpreted in a lot of ways – library professionals
help people better understand that every day.” Will people assume this is
just a one-time, Facebook/election problem and ignore it in a few weeks? Of
course they will, but librarians now have an opportunity to inform people
that fake news is really an everyday problem happening all around the
world. This week we link to (authentic) articles from the United States,
the Philippines, India, South Africa, Australia, Canada and
- Facebook alone didn’t create Trump—the click economy did
<https://www.wired.com/2016/11/facebook-alone-didnt-create-trump-click-economy/>
(Wired | Issie Lapowsky)  “In 2011, web traffic outfit Chartbeat published
a study
<http://blog.chartbeat.com/2013/06/07/do-people-really-read-the-scoop-on-the-chartbeats-feature-in-slate/>
that showed a huge percentage of people who clicked on an article on Slate
never even scrolled down the page. A vast majority only ever made it
halfway. ‘They’re reading the headlines, getting an emotional reaction, and
they’re passing them along,’ [author Jonah] Berger says. It’s a trend that
feels tailor-made for a candidate like Trump, whose campaign was high on
emotion but low on detail. Clinton’s campaign, meanwhile, used
fact-checking as its first line of defense. It seemed logical at the time.
Online, most facts are findable, so why not use them? But it could be that
all that work only served to heap more detail on an electorate that was
scarcely making it through the headlines.”
- Social media and fake news: How Trump bypassed hostile media to deliver
his message
<http://www.interaksyon.com/article/134204/social-media-and-fake-news--how-trump-bypassed-hostile-media-to-deliver-his-message>
(InterAksyon | Rob Lever)  “A Gallup survey this year found just 32 percent
had confidence in the media’s ability ‘to report the news fully, accurately
and fairly.’ There is a growing sentiment among conservatives that ‘the
mainstream press is left-of-center and that the conservatives should have
their own platforms,’ [digital consultant Alan] Rosenblatt said. Many Trump
supporters and conservatives turned to Twitter, Facebook and other social
media to spread their messages and counter the news in traditional outlets.
But much of the news on Facebook was fake, media watchers pointed out,
compromising the platform as well as confidence in the media.”
- Fake news and how it is killing democracy through social media timelines
<http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/opinion-technology/donald-trump-win-hillary-clinton-fake-news-facebook-timelines-twitter-social-media-4367920/>
(Indian Express | Shruti Dhapola)  “Facebook and social media in general
are just a source of news, but for a growing number of people these are the
only sources. Homepage traffic is down across the world for websites, and
this is true in India as well. People read more news shared by their
friends on Facebook, rather than actually go to news websites. But the
problem is that Facebook’s 1 billion plus reach means fake news gets
amplified a lot stronger than it would say with a traditional news media
outlet.”
- Media fights back as invasion of fake news intensifies
<http://www.fin24.com/Tech/News/media-fights-back-as-invasion-of-fake-news-intensifies-20161114>
(fin24tech | Matthew le Cordeur)  “To combat fake news spreading, Facebook,
Twitter, YouTube, the New York Times, BuzzFeed News, the Washington Post
and CNN joined the First Draft Partner Network <https://firstdraftnews.com/>
in September. This site, which was formed in 2015 with the backing of
Alphabet’s Google, is for journalists who source and report stories from
social media and require ways to authenticate real from fake news. From
Trump’s victory to the state capture debate in South Africa, the war on
fake news is a global issue.”

*Articles from Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Filtering the lies, satire and fake news: our defective detectors play
   us all for fools.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=DOC6SBRTP7HU3O2V9V0IBO>
   (*The Sydney Morning Herald*, Nov 14, 2016 | Tim Dick)
   - All the fake news that’s fit to print.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cmh&AN=Q4KRKON2016090139577979>
   (*The Record*, 09/01/2016 | Peter Shawn Taylor)
   - Facebook’s false reality.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=117973830>
   (*New Statesman*, 9/9/2016, p.17-18 | Amelia Tait)

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