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Fake News in Real Context by Paul Levinson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Fake News in Real Context about?

Fake news -- or news in which falsities appear by deliberate intent rather than accident or error -- has reared its head in the recent 2016 U. S. Presidential election, has been cited as one of the causes of its result, and continues to make headlines in real news reports. Fake news received 8.7 million “engagements” (likes or other reactions, shares, and comments) in comparison to 7.3 million for real news on Facebook between February 2016 and Election Day on November 7, 2016, with the biggest increase right before the election (Lee, 2016). Hillary Clinton denounced “the epidemic of malicious fake news” in a post-election speech on December 8, 2016 as “a danger that must be addressed,” adding that “fake news isn’t about partisanship or politics, lives are at risk" (Clinton, 2016). She was no doubt referring to a man who walked into the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, DC and pointed a gun, under the delusion that there was a child predation ring at work in the restaurant, having read in fake news stories that Hillary and Bill Clinton, and Anthony Weiner, were pursuing pedophilic interests in the pizza place (see Gillin, 2016, for further details). She cited "fake news" in

Who reads Fake News in Real Context?

Author

Paul Levinson

Publisher

Connected Editions

Published

2016

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Journalism, Media, Social_sciences