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The Look of Fake News (700+ screenshots of fake news sites)

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You included Guccifer 2 in the screenshot. This is NOT fake news as I am sure the CIA etc will tell you.

A message to everyone pushing the fake news meme. You better get your lists right. Yes, there exist some sites that push objectively fake news. Considering the multitude of issues that come up around identifying and blocking "Fake News", you damn well better get it right.

There are well founded and widespread concerns that there will be overreach in this mission steered by political motivations.

If you want support in this mission, it only takes one news site to be mislabelled for your other (genuine) work to be completely dismissed. I believe it is just too dangerous otherwise.

PropOrNot had exactly this problem, having to issue multiple retractions and apologies due to mislabelling.

edit: Considering the first sentence, here is another screenshot to add https://imgur.com/a/q9GWw

"I cannot vouch for the process or criteria Sieradski used when compiling this list but it is one of the largest lists I’ve come across and I believe it serves well here to put on display… the look of fake news."

@alva ^ I put this statement right up front for this very reason. This discussion was already taking place around B.S. Detector Chrome Extension and I agree that one person compiling a list (even if it's open to Pull Requests) is no where near the ideal process of identifying potential fake news sources in a fair, transparent manner.

Since I made this site, Facebook (in large part as a response of the discourse around the issue of fake news) has put in plans a coordinated effort to label potential fake news on its news feeds. They will have a much more fair, transparent, and documented process for this: http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/15/media/facebook-fake-news-war...

This was largely an experiment born out of curiosity and the idea of focusing on the visual aspect was in efforts to give visitors a "gestalt" of the visual "feel" of fake news more than anything.

I think further discussion and research around this problem is important. Not everyone will get it 100% right the first time but catalyzing efforts towards more ideal solutions is a good thing, overall.

  I cannot vouch for the process or criteria Sieradski used when compiling this list

But this is your Github repository, is it not? Are you disclaiming your own code?

Now, there's some fake news for you.

To label a site as "fake news", you should easily be able to point out at least three fake stories (or at least any three factual errors, provable objectively) on that site. Otherwise, this resembles a simple partisan filter.

breitbart.com

coasttocoastam.com

drudgereport.com

federalistpress.com

guccifer2.wordpress.com

wikileaks.org

wnd.com

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