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Information Disorder Lab

The document discusses the problem of information disorder and disinformation spreading on social media. It defines different types of disinformation like fabricated content, false context, and manipulated content. It explains that "fake news" is a misnomer and can be better described as "junk news", which is hyperpartisan, misleading, or low-quality content often spread for profit. The document outlines signals that can identify junk news pages and notes that junk news reaches more people on Facebook than some mainstream news sources.

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Information Disorder Lab

The document discusses the problem of information disorder and disinformation spreading on social media. It defines different types of disinformation like fabricated content, false context, and manipulated content. It explains that "fake news" is a misnomer and can be better described as "junk news", which is hyperpartisan, misleading, or low-quality content often spread for profit. The document outlines signals that can identify junk news pages and notes that junk news reaches more people on Facebook than some mainstream news sources.

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Information Disorder

Cameron Hickey
Information Disorder Lab
The Problem:

Disinformation continues to
spread across social media
What does it look like?
Fabricated content
What does it look like?
False context
What does it look like?
False connection
What does it look like?
Imposter Content
What does it look like?
Manipulated Content
What does it look like?
Satire
What is it?

Fake
News
Fake ● Isn’t always “news”
News ● Disinformation isn’t always “fake”

● “Fake news” has been co-opted


“Junk News”
What Is (Political) Junk News?
Junk

CLICKBAIT
FABRICATED
PLAGIARISM

HYPERPARTISAN
MISLEADING

SATIRE
Identifying Junk Pages
In combination, these signals indicate content may be junk:

● Clickbait headline ● Low quality ads


● Missing / fake byline ● Partisan rhetoric
● False content ● Inflammatory tone
● Misleading content ● Hate speech
● Inaccurate context ● Young domain
● Plagiarism ● Multi-site publishing
Audience for mainstream news on Facebook
50M

10M
Facebook Fans

1M

100,000

10,000
Junk news audience
50M

10M
Facebook Fans

1M

100,000

10,000
Why It Matters
50M
Facebook Fans

10M

1M

100,000

10,000

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