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The list of trustworthy and untrustworthy sources seems to have been manually compiled in a prior paper. >For that purpose, we use a widely-used and publicly a
by kipchak 6y ago
The list of trustworthy and untrustworthy sources seems to have been manually compiled in a prior paper.
>For that purpose, we use a widely-used and publicly available list of English news media Twitter accounts provided by Volkova et al. (2017) and Glenski, Weninger & Volkova (2018a), which contains 424 English news media sources categorized in unreliable (satire, propaganda, hoax, clickbait) and reliable, following Rubin, Chen & Conroy (2015).
The list is linked in the referenced paper, but unfortunately doesn't seem to be available anymore outside of a few examples given in the paper, such as the Drudge Report being under the hoax category. The list seems to have been compiled based on Propornot's list[1], which doesn't seem to have updated since 2017, (though their Twitter account is active[6]) and fakenewswatch[2] which no longer is active, based on one of the cited papers.[3] Some of the inclusions on those sites' lists I'm not completely sure about, such as putting "ronpaulinstitute.org" under the Russian propaganda category. I'm not sure what made a source trusted.
[1]http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html
[2]https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20170301201107/http://www.fakenewswatch.com/ https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20170301201107/http://www.fak...
[3]https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.12032.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.12032.pdf
[4]https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~svitlana/posters/FakeNewsPoster.pdf https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~svitlana/posters/FakeNewsPoster.pdf
[5]https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20170301201107/http://www.fakenewswatch.com/ https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20170301201107/http://www.fak...
[6]https://twitter.com/propornot/status/1295531214862815232 https://twitter.com/propornot/status/1295531214862815232
- sieabahlpark 6y ago> Some of the inclusions on those sites' lists I'm not completely sure about, such as putting "ronpaulinstitute.org" under the Russian propaganda category. I'm not sure what made a source trusted Thanks for proving my point that this study is actually worthless.
- StanislavPetrov 6y agoFrightening, but extremely apropos that propaganda outlet Propornot is used as the benchmark to determine what is "reliable". Propornot first gained credibility as a source in a 2016 Washington Post article about "Russian disinformation". It was so hilariously bad that The Washington Post was quickly forced to amend the article with an editorial disclaimer about Propornot. A detailed writeup of this debacle was done at the time by The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group/ https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgrace... Matt Taibi also chimed in at the time: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-washington-post-blacklist-story-is-shameful-and-disgusting-115978/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-...