How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News: Exploring the Impacts of Social Media, Deepfakes, GPT-3, and More

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N. GiansiracusaHow Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake Newshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7155-1_1

1. Perils of Pageview

The Data-Driven Economics of Online Journalism

Noah Giansiracusa¹  

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Acton, MA, USA

 

The economics of the Internet created a twisted set of incentives that make traffic more important—and more profitable—than the truth.

—Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

Much of what we know, or think we know, about what is happening in the world we learn by reading the news. But nowadays “the news” means something different than it did in generations past. What we read primarily today are articles on the internet—everything ...