Data Day

Did Pope Francis endorse Donald Trump? Did Hillary Clinton sell weapons to Isis? If you don't know the answers to these questions, you may have been the victim of fake news. In the first episode of a new podcast from Interhacktives – Data Day – Ella Wilks-Harper and Luke Barratt discuss the rise of fake news, question whether the crisis has been overstated, and examine some possible solutions to the problem. Mark Zuckerburg's initial response to the fake news scandal: http://bit.ly/2fZ533d Buzzfeed's story about Macedonian teenagers using fake news to garner ad revenue: http://bzfd.it/2fYYxcZ A letter from the editor of Aftenposten attacking Zuckerburg over the censoring of a picture from the Vietnam War: http://bit.ly/2fZ4QNJ Buzzfeed's analysis of engagement with fake news on Facebook in the last few months before the US election: http://bzfd.it/2fZ5JWt