Fake News

Taking a realistic look at Media Bias

Traditional journalism values a focus on news reporting that is fair and impartial, guided by principles like truth, verification and accuracy.  In the modern world those standards are often not observed equally across the board in the “news” content that people consume.

The AllSides Media Bias Chart™ helps to easily identify different perspectives so you can get the full picture and think for yourself. Knowing the political bias of media outlets allows you to consume a balanced news diet and avoid manipulation and fake news. Everyone is biased, but hidden bias misleads and divides us.

Please visit the AllSides site: www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart to learn more

The chart below is a fascinating and important Media Bias Chart based on real information, using data pulled with scientific process and journalistic integrity this chart may help you visualize partisanship, bias, and credibility across the news spectrum. If you would like your media to inform you, but not affirm or influence this may provide valuable insight.

Please visit the author's site: Ad Fontes Media to learn more.

Fake news in the news

• ABCNews: When Fake News Makes Real News Headline
  About a fake story which was treated as real news. Traces some of the pipeline for developing and distributing fake news
• NPR: We Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator
  About Jestin Coler, who began creating and distributing fake news in 2013.
• NPR: Students Have Dismaying Inability to Tell Fake News Apart
  Many students cannot tell fake news from real news.
• The Atlantic: The Food Babe, Enemy of Chemicals
  An examination of claims made by The Food Babe, with pointed analysis by professor Kevin Folta of the University of Florida
• The New Yorker: The Operator
  An examination into Dr. Mehmet Oz, who both performs open heart surgery and hosts a television show on medical matters.
• New York Times: How Fake News Goes Viral
  From a single Tweeter with 35 friends to being shared over 400,000 times through various forums, this article traces a Tweet made November 9th, 2016.
• ​CNN: Fake News, Real Violence
  ​"Pizzagate" was a fake news story which connected a pizzeria with a child pornography ring allegedly run by Hillary Clinton and John Podesta. On Sunday, December 3, 2016, an armed shooter entered the pizzeria and fired a shot before being accosted by the police.
• NPR: How to Tell Real News from Fake News in 'Post-Truth' Era
  This article discusses "post-truth", the idea that all news outlets will fail you eventually and it's impossible to know who to trust. It provides some commonsense advice on what to look for in a news outlet.
• Global Challenges: Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change
  Covers a new theory about combating fake news known as "attitudinal inoculation" and follows two studies testing this method.
• TED: How to tell fake news from real news
  A brief selection of things to look for when determining the fakeness of news.
• The Atlantic: The Rise of Progressive "Fake News"
  This interview with Snopes editor Brooke Binkowski examines the emotional pull of fake news
• BBC.com: How do Fake News Sites Make Money?
  An investigation into how profitable fake news can be.
• Washington Post: The information war is real, and we're losing
  Discusses the findings of Dr. Kate Starbird, who traced the sources and popularity of fake news.
• 60 Minutes: How fake news finds your social media feeds
  A thorough investigation into the fake news industry, including bots, Facebook and interviews with fake news authors Jestin Coler and Michael Cernovich and University of Oxford professor Phil Howard.
• Washington Post: This is not an interview with Banksy
  Article about practical joker James Horner, whose hoaxes have been featured on major news sites as real news
• This Is How You Stop Fake News
  Adam J. Berinsky, professor of political science at MIT, contributed this article to The Washington Post