Universe of ‘Fake News’ Sites According To Fake Communications Professor
The Guardian
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Jonathan Albright
Elon University, North Carolina
A spatial map of the rightwing fake news ecosystem. Jonathan Albright, assistant professor of communications at Elon University, North Carolina, “scraped” 300 fake news sites (the dark shapes on this map) to reveal the 1.3m hyperlinks that connect them together and link them into the mainstream news ecosystem. Here, Albright shows it is a “vast satellite system of rightwing news and propaganda that has completely surrounded the mainstream media system”.
Photograph: Jonathan Albright