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Section sizes Section size for Fake news (95 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 7,168 7,168 Defining fake news 9,607 22,325 Roots 2,434 2,434 Popularity and viral spread 4,403 4,403 Its damaging effects 5,881 5,881 Types of fake news 1,902 1,902 Criticism of the term 5,436 5,436 Identification 4,069 6,445 Online identification 2,376 2,376 Tackling and suppression strategies 1,749 40,944 Strategies regarding the perpetrator 45 6,050 Promotion of facts over emotions 1,804 1,804 Technique rebuttal 1,053 1,053 Individual counteraction 1,790 1,790 Backfire effect 1,358 1,358 Strategies regarding carriers 38 22,084 Regulation of social media 1,787 1,787 General strategy 2,878 2,878 Fact-checking 2,286 2,286 Facebook 2,597 2,597 Google 1,902 1,902 Legal and criminal sanctions in general 10,596 10,596 Strategies regarding the recipient 42 11,061 Cognitive biases of recipient 2,059 2,059 Nudges as reflection prompts 2,518 2,518 Media critical thinking skills 493 493 Mental immune health, inoculation and prebunking 5,949 5,949 History 14 34,742 Ancient 3,878 3,878 Medieval 878 878 Early modern 3,108 3,108 19th century 3,799 3,799 20th century 7,504 7,504 21st century 15,561 15,561 Special topics 22 26,406 Deepfakes and shallowfakes 5,568 5,568 Bots on social media 9,783 9,783 Internet trolls 3,688 3,688 Fake news hoaxes 7,345 7,345 Donald Trump's misuse of term 11,813 11,813 By country 17 132,674 Europe 15 44,929 Austria 1,099 1,099 Belgium 941 941 Czech Republic 1,833 1,833 European Union 932 932 Finland 1,219 1,219 France 5,491 5,491 Germany 5,709 5,709 Hungary 1,153 1,153 Italy 2,043 2,043 Malta 2,841 2,841 Netherlands 1,384 1,384 Poland 2,164 2,164 Romania 750 750 Russia 3,252 3,252 Serbia 4,023 4,023 Spain 1,955 1,955 Sweden 1,660 1,660 Ukraine 2,575 2,575 United Kingdom 3,890 3,890 Asia 13 40,675 China 5,015 7,162 Hong Kong 2,147 2,147 India 1,064 1,064 Indonesia 7,505 7,505 Malaysia 3,619 3,619 Myanmar (Burma) 1,230 1,230 Pakistan 1,022 1,022 Philippines 6,779 6,779 Singapore 8,639 8,639 South Korea 1,669 1,669 Taiwan 1,973 1,973 Americas 18 25,985 Brazil 7,375 7,375 Canada 1,515 1,515 Colombia 4,600 4,600 Mexico 12,340 12,340 United States 137 137 Middle East and Africa 31 18,603 Armenia 961 961 Israel and Palestinian territories 5,101 5,101 Saudi Arabia 3,554 3,554 Syria 3,622 3,622 United Arab Emirates 868 868 Egypt 846 846 South Africa 3,620 3,620 Oceania 17 2,465 Australia 2,448 2,448 See also 1,828 1,828 Notes 26 26 References 30 446 Sources 416 416 Further reading 4,070 4,070 External links 3,306 3,306 Total 299,531 299,531

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Hello Wikipedia, normally your pages are easy to read. This one is very long and has no table of contents or way to easily navigate it. Sorry I can't help. HeretoCriticize (talk) 21:54, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

...and should be expanded. JackTheSecond (talk) 23:15, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Any ideas what should be added?--Jack Upland (talk) 23:26, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've been working on the German Service of the BBC for a while and got the impression that the BBC was broadcasting much more reliable news segments than really anyone else. By my impression, Radio propaganda seems to have been a major facet of the Cold War and the truthfulness of the various broadcasts seems to have varied by a lot.

But maybe general propaganda is outside the scope of this article. I don't really know. JackTheSecond (talk) 11:59, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would say it is, its why we have a whole article on it. Slatersteven (talk) 12:02, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's more the amount of additional information that covering the Cold War as well that'd be a problem, probably. Though, because of how the definition at the top does include 'propaganda', maybe we can add a section and include a link to the relevant articles. JackTheSecond (talk) 12:27, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Fake News" as a thing hardly existed before 2017. There was a proposal in 2005 to delete Fake_News since "propaganda" said it all. IMO, most of the old anecdotes (history, propaganda) should be reduced to pointers to the incidents or general articles. This article should distinguish the SEVERAL usages that have emerged since November, 2016. RichardFloyd (talk) 04:18, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

... and then what? Did anything come of it? What's the point of mentioning it? WP:NOTNEWS. 2601:642:4600:D3B0:56C:3F16:53EF:5265 (talk) 00:32, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The quoted section is not in the article. Neither are similar statements. JackTheSecond (talk) 12:29, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As you probably know, fake news was a topic this historian dealt with while he was in the trenches in the World War: as a historian he considered that it was not enough for his profession to dismiss them as "okay they are not true, so we are not interested in them," but that they themselves should be the subject of study. Perhaps this item could be related to "fake news" topic ? 151.49.40.45 (talk) 20:28, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]