{"id":355,"date":"2018-04-02T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=355"},"modified":"2018-03-23T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T16:53:10","slug":"history-and-growth-of-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/history-and-growth-of-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"History and growth of Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fake News is nothing new and has been going on since time began!<\/p>\n<p>Have at look at our <a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/fakenews\/history\">timeline<\/a> on our <a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/fakenews\">Fake News Guide<\/a> for a snapshot of how Fake News has shaped history:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/fakenews\/history\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-375\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/03\/2018-03-23-12_23_40-EDIT-History-of-Fake-News-Fake-News-LibGuides-at-Newcastle-University.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"729\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the introduction of mass news with the invention of the printing press, and the massive up-rise in news being created and fed via social media, the growth of the term &#8216;Fake News&#8217; and the actual production of Fake News stories has grown exponentially in recent years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The term &#8216;Fake News&#8217; is searched for in web browsers 70.8-118 thousand times a month.<\/li>\n<li>#fakenews has over 251.2k mentions on Twitter<\/li>\n<li>In 2017 Donald Trump mentioned the term &#8216;Fake News&#8217; in public correspondence, 320 times!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not only has the volume of Fake News grown, but also the speed that it spreads.\u00a0 However, maybe there is a way we can slow it down:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How false news can spread - Noah Tavlin\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cSKGa_7XJkg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/category\/fake-news\/\">other blogs on Fake News<\/a> to be aware of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/2018\/03\/23\/the-consequences-of-fake-news\/\">consequences of Fake News<\/a> and how you can become a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/2018\/03\/23\/how-to-be-a-fake-news-ninja\/\">Fake News Ninja<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><br \/>\nKiely, E. (2018)\u00a0<em>Trump\u2019s Phony \u2018Fake News\u2019 Claims<\/em>. Available at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2018\/01\/trumps-phony-fake-news-claims\/\">https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2018\/01\/trumps-phony-fake-news-claims\/<\/a>. Accessed: 23 March 2018).<br \/>\nSmith, R. (2017) <em>The Numbers Behind Fake News<\/em>. Available at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyinfographic.com\/numbers-behind-fake-news\">http:\/\/www.dailyinfographic.com\/numbers-behind-fake-news<\/a>. (Accessed: 23 March 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake News is nothing new and has been going on since time began! Have at look at our timeline on our Fake News Guide for a snapshot of how Fake News has shaped history: With the introduction of mass news with the invention of the printing press, and the massive up-rise in news being created &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/history-and-growth-of-fake-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;History and growth of Fake News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2859,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,97],"tags":[43,44,45,25,10,26,46,36,2,18,50,4,27,51,52,28,95,37,53,29,54,23,22,56,57,21,11,16,30,17,9,20,61,62,63,65,66,12,38,13,39,40,6,70,100,33,41,71,34,19,35,42,24,73,74],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-news","category-resources","tag-agribusiness","tag-agriculture","tag-animal","tag-linguistics","tag-archaeology","tag-architecture","tag-biology","tag-biomed","tag-business","tag-chinese-and-japanese","tag-civil","tag-classics","tag-combhon","tag-computing","tag-countryside","tag-communication","tag-culture-and-heritage","tag-dentistry","tag-earth","tag-education","tag-eee","tag-english-language","tag-english-literature","tag-environeng","tag-environsci","tag-film","tag-art","tag-french","tag-geography","tag-german","tag-history","tag-italian","tag-jointhon","tag-marinesci","tag-marinetech","tag-maths","tag-mecheng","tag-media","tag-medicine","tag-music","tag-nutrition","tag-pharmacy","tag-philosophy","tag-physics","tag-planning-and-landscape","tag-politics","tag-psychology","tag-reneweng","tag-sociology","tag-spanish-and-latin-american","tag-speech","tag-sport","tag-translating-and-interpreting","tag-transport","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3886,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}