As a reader you have to make choices. Something simple to you but meaningful to others that publish the news. Extra care is taken to attract your clicks and your attention. Let’s see if you can spot the fake and tell the difference.
Explanation of categories
Clickbaits: These are stories designed to attract website visitors and increase the advertising profits for the sites. Clickbait stories use attractive or deceptive headlines to grab the attention and drive through the clicks to the publisher’s website.
Satire/parody: It is not unfamiliar for sites and mostly social media accounts, to post fake news stories for entertainment and parody, like The Onion1, The Daily Mash2, etc.
Conspiracy theories: Stories that reject the standard explanations of important or unexplained events and instead support the theory of a covert plot largely unknown to the public.
Misleading Headings: These are stories that are not entirely fake but use misleading or sensationalist headlines in order to spread quickly through social media. Typically, in the social media only the headlines and small snippet of the article is displayed in the newsfeed.
Propaganda: Fake news stories fabricated to intentionally mislead or bias the public on specific economic or political agendas.
Biased News: Typically, most of the readers follow stories that confirm their own beliefs or views. Social media and search engines algorithms are designed to provide personalized information tailored to the readers’ online profiles and habits.
Deep Fakes: The improvement of the video editing software combined with Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning provides the opportunity to create realistic fake videos. Deep fakes are an emerging threat as it makes possible to create footages to show something happened or said that did not. Seeing is believing will not exist anymore.