Friday, February 9, 2018

Uncovering Fake News




Twitter is home to many fake news accounts and false information. Specifically, one of the fake news accounts is @RampCapitalLLC (https://twitter.com/rampcapitalllc?lang=en ) who changes and modifies real information to make it fake. For example the account will take real screenshots of the stock market and alter the photos to make the “37.8K” followers see this information that they might take seriously. Saying stuff like “DOW IS DOWN 2000 POINTS IN A WEEK” to its followers, that is not true just to be clear, I’m sure in some point in time it happened, but when this account tweeted this, it is not true. [1 image, 1 link, 2 quotations, 102 words]

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