The agenda-setting power of fake news: A big data analysis of the online media landscape from 2014 to 2016
The agenda-setting power of fake news: A big data analysis of the online media landscape from 2014 to 2016
Chris J. Vargo,Lei Guo,Michelle A. Amazeen
2018 · DOI: 10.1177/1461444817712086
New Media & Society · 490 Citations
TLDR
Although it is confirmed that content from fake news websites is increasing, these sites do not exert excessive power, and fact-checkers were not influential in determining the agenda of news media overall, and their influence appears to be declining, illustrating the difficulties fact-checks face in disseminating their corrections.
