1. Fake NEWS: Types & examples
JMC 1011 – FALL J Kerezy, InSTRUCTOR

2. I. Most common: Satirical/FUN
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (for decades)
COMEDY CENTRAL (Daily Show, Stephen Colbert, etc.)
(began as a newspaper: See next slide)
Many other Satirical web Sites (check out )

4. II. Deceivers!
They take joy at intentionally deceiving people, media, etc. (GoldBlum example)
The main purpose is just to “get away with it”

5. Let’s watch a couple

6. II. DECEIVERS – A decent explanation

7. III. Deliberate fakes for profit
Set up web sites – get paid per click to the web site
amish-vote-donald-trump/ / (Completely false!)
facebook-macedonia/

8. III. Deliberate fakes for profit
“We are talking about the mass production of misinformation for profit, and it seems to be another field in which the rest of the world has caught up and passed America,…” – Charles F. Pierce, from Esquire article titled: “Content Farm to Content Table: Anything is true if enough people believe it.”

9. IV. Political “fake news” & smears Both in news and in social media
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(View the whole story. Fox News commentary show host Bill O’Reilly defends the speech Michelle Obama gave at the July 2016 Democratic National Convention, and he gets smeared for it! O’Reilly fights back.]

10. IV. Political “fake news” & smears Both in news and in social media
One from the “Right” and one from the “Left”
Comet PING PONG Pizza SHOP incident

11. Your Assignment
What’s the best way to COUNTER “FAKE NEWS” – three things one can do??
WHAT’s THE DANGER? IS THERE A DANGER?
Submit by next TUESDAY for NEXT WEDNESDAY’S class – 9/6 – for up to 10 Extra Credit points (will do both paper and digital submissions, for linkage purposes)