Real Talk About Fake News: Identity Language and Disconnected Networks of the US Public’s “Fake News” Discourse on Twitter
This article studies “fake news” beyond the consumption and dissemination of misinformation and disinformation. We uncover how the term “fake news” serves as a discursive device for ordinary citizens to consolidate group identity in everyday political utterances on Twitter. Using computational lingu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120916841 |