"Something has changed", German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the German Parliament last year. "Opinions aren't formed the way they were 25 years ago. Today we have fake sites, bots, trolls — things that regenerate themselves, reinforcing opinions with certain algorithms and we have to learn to deal with them", and "we must confront this phenomenon and if necessary, regulate it." Leading up to our important discussion on Fake News on Wednesday - for which we're all full up - I thought I’d put together a list of things to read, to understand the environment around Fake News better, since it is becoming incredibly important from societal, media, political and geo-political perspective. This is by no means a comprehensive list on this issue, but it is what I'm reading to prepare. If you’d like to suggest things that we ought to look at, please feel free to suggest links in the comments, or to me on twitter (I'm @nixxin on Twitter): - In Wired, Samanth Subramanian talks to a Macedonian who ran Fake News websites, and looks at the economic environment in Macedonia which made this such a compelling career: “He posted the link on Facebook, seeding it within various groups devoted to American politics; to his astonishment, it was shared around 800 times. That month—February 2016—Boris made more than $150 off the Google ads on his website. Considering this to be the best possible use of his time, he stopped going to high school.” Read it here. *** - Buzzfeed's Pranav Dixit gives a…
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