fake news vocabulary Flashcards

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alt-right

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a far-right, white nationalist group

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freelance writer

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self employed contractor, usually writes on behalf of multiple companies

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fake news

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deliberately fabricated information with misinformation in order to manipulate

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white nationalist

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believes in white supremacy and that they’re their own race and usually hates non-white people

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deep fake

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videos that are digitally edited/altered so that they appear to be someone else; used maliciously in order to spread fake information

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anonymity

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the person’s identity is unknown

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7
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confirmation bias

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interpreting only the information that one believes in order to strengthen those beliefs

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