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Section sizes

Section size for Fake news (95 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	8,459	8,459
Defining fake news	9,655	23,767
Roots	2,434	2,434
Popularity and viral spread	5,797	5,797
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	40,969
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	11,086
Cognitive biases of recipient	2,059	2,059
Nudges as reflection prompts	2,518	2,518
Media critical thinking skills	515	515
Mental immune health, inoculation and prebunking	5,952	5,952
History	14	34,743
Ancient	3,878	3,878
Medieval	878	878
Early modern	3,108	3,108
19th century	3,799	3,799
20th century	7,505	7,505
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	132,893
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	25,987
Brazil	7,377	7,377
Canada	1,515	1,515
Colombia	4,600	4,600
Mexico	12,340	12,340
United States	137	137
Middle East and Africa	31	18,820
Armenia	961	961
Israel and Palestinian territories	5,101	5,101
Saudi Arabia	3,554	3,554
Syria	3,839	3,839
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	302,509	302,509

Use of AI as fake news as a potential subtopic?

I've noticed that the article lacks most mention of any sort of use of AI used to create fake news. The article itself occasionally mentions using AI to counter it, but not to using AI to create fake news, other than briefly when talking about fake news in Mexico. Should a subtopic be made dedicated to AI creating fake news, or should it be placed in a different section? DroopyB (talk) 14:16, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have any sources discussing this as a wide issue? Slatersteven (talk) 14:17, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What's considered a "wide issue"? I have sources on AI misinformation and AI being used as fake news, but none of them directly call the issue a "wide" issue. DroopyB (talk) 14:35, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What I mean is, does this violate [p[wplundue]], what major RS has taken notice of this as an issue? Slatersteven (talk) 14:40, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What does it mean to "violate [p[wplundue]]"? Stevesuny (talk) 18:12, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Typo, its meant to be a link to wp:undue or "demonstrate this is anything more than a narrow or finge view that is highly relevant to the topic". Slatersteven (talk) 18:15, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is this recent academic article which discusses this topic critically and cites a lot of material on the subject: https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/misinformation-reloaded-fears-about-the-impact-of-generative-ai-on-misinformation-are-overblown/ AcademiaObscura (talk) 13:46, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting... ''Flux55'' (talk) 16:57, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I made an account just to say this page needs work

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]

The History section is missing the Cold War entirely...

...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]

"the House of Commons commenced an inquiry"

... 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]