For most people, "fake" is now simply anything that doesn't fit their worldview. Which can be a problem if that worldview isn't well aligned with reality 🙃
Regarding the "test": If a headline says "China reports 5.4% GDP growth", that's not fake news if they did in fact report that number. Whether the number is accurate or not is another question...
yeah, that's my complaint with the MIST -- they'd wrack that up as "Real" even if the NYTimes happens to misquote the actual number (ignoring whether the actual number was computed correctly). The bottom line is that the term "misinformation" is so ambiguous and overused as to be useless.
For most people, "fake" is now simply anything that doesn't fit their worldview. Which can be a problem if that worldview isn't well aligned with reality 🙃
Regarding the "test": If a headline says "China reports 5.4% GDP growth", that's not fake news if they did in fact report that number. Whether the number is accurate or not is another question...
yeah, that's my complaint with the MIST -- they'd wrack that up as "Real" even if the NYTimes happens to misquote the actual number (ignoring whether the actual number was computed correctly). The bottom line is that the term "misinformation" is so ambiguous and overused as to be useless.