City University in London awarded £300,000 Google grant to build app which will help journalists sift through ‘big data’
Journalism researchers at City, University of London, are set to lead a European push to combat ‘fake news’ after being…
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Pierre Omidyar and George Soros foundations give $500,000 to UK fact-checking organisation
UK fact-checking organisation Full Fact has received $500,000 (£386,000) from the Omidyar Network and Open Society Foundations to produce two…
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Nearly three in four turn to trusted brands for breaking news, Reuters survey reveals
Almost three out of four consumers will turn to trusted news brands to verify the source of a breaking news…
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Hoax Twitter account poses as BBC journalist and posts fake news about polling stations
A bogus Twitter account posing as a BBC journalist posted fake news about people being turned away and intimidated at…
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National newspapers caught up in spread of false information online following Manchester bombing
The Daily Express and Daily Star websites published a “breaking” news story about a gunman at a Greater Manchester hospital that turned…
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Fake news not yet an issue in general election campaign, says head of fact-checking charity
Fake news seems to be a “relatively limited” problem in the UK general election so far, according to the head…
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Press Association duped by students with fake video story about finishing essay in nightclub
A group of students duped Press Association with a fake story about finishing an essay in a nightclub. The story…
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“Fake news” is a term that has quickly become part of the modern journalism vocabulary, not least because of its…
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