Coronavirus, boom of Fake News via instant messenger
Cyber Security Experts: Hoaxes spread as a joke or to scam users with malware and phishing. Attention, trust only official sources and do not share content if you’re not sure.
Twitter users victims of a big prank. Tens of thousands of profiles blocked
In social media circulates the rumor that setting 2007 as date of birth, new colors are obtained. The result, instead, is the stop of the profile as “under 13 years”.
The Fake News, why they spread and how to recognize them
Anna Kucirkova of Connex Digital Marketing explains the different kinds of “hoax” on Internet and social media, and how to spot them.
Fake News spreads faster that real news on Twitter, a study of MIT finds
Three researchers published a document on Science in which they explain that the cause are the humans. The bots accelerated the spread of true and false news at the same rate on the social media.
Syria, the Islamic State publishes a fake video on its success at Deir Ezzor
The video, which shows an alleged victory of Daesh, is in reality a Fake News studied to attract youngsters. Thanks to the similarity to FPS videogames.
How and why a Fake News story becomes viral
The process that transforms a hoax in a “phenomenon”, in particular on the social media, is simple. It is based on the vulnerability of the audience, and on the news/topics cycle.
Fake News, we are the best weapon against it
Fake News exists since journalism and espionage were born. It has been called deception, misinformation, “poisoned bait”, or hoax. Internet has only accelerated the spread of it. It's necessary to reconstruct the difference between information and opinion.