fake news website
Alarmism – Excessive or exaggerated alarm about a real or imagined threat
Alternative facts – Expression associated with political misinformation established in 2017
Big lie – Propaganda technique
Chequebook journalism – Practice of news reporters paying sources for information
Citizen journalism – Journalism genre
Clickbait – Web content intended to entice users to click on a link
Confirmation bias – Bias confirming existing attitudes
Demoralization (warfare) – Warfare tactic used to erode morale
Disinformation – Deliberately misleading information
Doomscrolling – Compulsive consumption of negative online news
Echo chamber (media) – Situation that reinforces beliefs by repetition inside a closed system
Euromyth – Exaggerated or invented story about the European Union
Fact – Datum or structured component of reality
Fact-checking – Process of verifying information in non-fictional text
Factoid – Invented claim or trivial fact
Fake news – False or misleading information presented as real
Fallacy of composition – Fallacy of inferring on the whole from a part
False equivalence – Logical fallacy of inconsistency
Fearmongering – Deliberate use of fear-based tactics
Filter bubble – Intellectual isolation through internet algorithms
Firehose of falsehood – Propaganda technique
Freedom of the press – Freedom of communication and expression through various media
Information quality – Quality of the content of information systems
Information silo – Insular information management system
Internet meme – Cultural item spread via the Internet
Journalism ethics and standards – Principles of ethics and of good practice in journalism
Lamestream media – Mass news media that influence many people
List of fake news websites
Muckraker – Progressive-Era reform-minded investigative journalist in the US
Political bias – Bias towards a political side in supposedly-objective information
Post-truth politics – Political culture where facts are considered irrelevant
Pseudohistory – Pseudoscholarship that attempts to distort historical record
Selective exposure theory – Theory within the practice of psychology
Social Networks
Spiral of silence – Political science and mass communication theory
Tabloid journalism – Style of largely sensationalist journalism
Tribe (Internet) – Slang for an unofficial community of people who share a common interest
Troll farm – People employed to post divisive content
Truthiness – Quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than actual truth
Yellow journalism – Sensationalistic news
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