A new guide to Fake News was launched last week by the Public Data Lab.
A new guide to 'fake news' has been launched by the Public Data Lab , an interdisciplinary network co-founded by Institute for Policy Research Prize Fellow, Dr Jonathan Gray. Unveiled at the end of last week at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, the guide presents a set of innovative digital methods and empirical approaches to help understand the spread of 'fake news' online and the challenges it presents to society. It is aimed at media organisations, researchers, civil society groups, public institutions as well as students. Designed to enrich and stimulate public debate and responses to online 'fake news', the publication highlights different ways to trace the production, circulation and reception of misinformation across the web and digital platforms. The first part is freely available online at via http://fakenews.publicdatalab.org/ . This marks the first project of the Public Data Lab network which was set up to facilitate research, public engagement and debate around the future of the data society. A Field Guide to Fake News has been undertaken in collaboration with First Draft , a non-profit initiative dedicated to improving skills and standards in the reporting and sharing of information that emerges online.
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