HT 2 - Fake News

These are stories that are deliberately fabricated to gain more website visitors and increase advertising revenue for websites. Clickbait stories use sensationalist headlines to grab attention and drive click-throughs to the publisher website, normally at the expense of truth or accuracy.

• Propaganda

• Clickbait

• Satire/Parody

• Sloppy Journalism

Stories that are created to deliberately mislead audiences, promote a biased point of view or particular political cause or agenda.

• Sloppy Journalism

• Fake News

• Misinformation

• Propaganda

Lots of websites and social media accounts publish fake news stories for entertainment and parody. For example; The Onion, Waterford Whispers, The Daily Mash, etc.

• Satire/Parody

• Misleading Headlines

• Biased/Slanted News

• Propaganda

Sometimes reporters or journalists may publish a story with unreliable information or without checking all of the facts which can mislead audiences.

• Biased/Slanted News

• Misleading Headlines

• Sloppy Journalism

• Clickbait

Stories that are not completely false but are distorted as a result of the desire to attract attention.

• Propaganda

• Biased/Slanted News

• Misleading Headlines

• Clickbait

News that tilts in the direction of a certain person or group's beliefs. Social media sites may tailor the content in order to display news that they think we will liked based on our internet usage.

• Biased/Slanted News

• Misleading Headlines

• Clickbait

• Satire/Parody