November 21, 2016
SHARE
CANADALAND
#160 People Like Fake News Better
Fake news sites won the American election. BuzzFeed Canada's Craig Silverman discusses how bogus Facebook stories blew credible news out of the water.
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Katie Jensen
Freelance Producer

Fake news sites won the American election. BuzzFeed Canada editor Craig Silverman analyzed Facebook election news and found that bogus Facebook stories blew credible news out of the water.

Craig’s Buzzfeed News piece, “This Analysis Shows How Fake Election News Stories Outperformed Real News On Facebook” (Nov 16th 2016)

Craig’s Twitter: @CraigSilverman

More from this series
Is he a terrorist? Or a scapegoat?
November 11, 2024
Documents reveal how Canada’s airline watchdog was pressured to bend the rules and leave Canadians holding the bag.
November 4, 2024
“In an effort to put everything into question, we run the danger of losing any kind of firm footing on which to build a more just and equitable society. So the logical end game of a certain project of questioning is total bafflement or the destruction of everything.” - Professor Mark Kingwell
October 28, 2024
Support us now at canadaland.com/join
October 21, 2024
How did a garbage company become the “best” source for news in this major Canadian city?
October 21, 2024
“Artificial intelligence was considered the realm of lunatics and wackos and eccentrics. So they couldn't get hired at really elite universities in the United States. [The] University of Toronto hired them, and then it turned out they were really right and all the elite people were really wrong.” - Stephen Marche, author of “Was Linguistic A.I. Created by Accident?”
October 14, 2024
Israel’s Ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed, sits down with Jesse for a candid and intense discussion about how Israel’s actions during the war are impacting Canadians.
October 7, 2024
It was the largest art fraud in history. The sheer volume of rip-offs numbering in the thousands. And the scheme that shocked the art world sprang from, of all places, Thunder Bay. How did the fraudsters hatch such a plan from such an unlikely place? And what part did a cold case murder play in finally exposing their cultural crime?
September 30, 2024
all podcasts arrow All Podcasts
CANADALAND