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Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World (Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts) by Dalkir, Kimiz;Katz, Rebecca is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In the current day and age, objective facts have less influence on opinions and decisions than personal emotions and beliefs. Many individuals rely on their social networks to gather information thanks to social media's ability to share information rapidly and over a much greater geographic range. However, this creates an overall false balance as people tend to seek out information that is compatible with their existing views and values. They deliberately seek out “facts” and data that specifically support their conclusions and classify any information that contradicts their beliefs as “false news.” Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World is a collection of innovative research on human and automated methods to deter the spread of misinformation online, such as legal or policy changes, information literacy workshops, and algorithms that can detect fake news dissemination patterns in social media. While highlighting topics including source credibility, share culture, and media literacy, this book is ideally designed for social media managers, technology and software developers, IT specialists, educators, columnists, writers, editors, journali

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Author

Dalkir, Kimiz;Katz, Rebecca

Publisher

IGI Global, Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global)

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781799825463

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Language Learning, Political Science