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Section size for Fake news (95 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	8,455	8,455
Defining fake news	9,625	24,112
Roots	2,430	2,430
Popularity and viral spread	6,182	6,182
Its damaging effects	5,875	5,875
Types of fake news	1,906	1,906
Criticism of the term	5,416	5,416
Identification	4,075	6,444
Online identification	2,369	2,369
Tackling and suppression strategies	1,749	40,952
Strategies regarding the perpetrator	45	6,041
Promotion of facts over emotions	1,800	1,800
Technique rebuttal	1,053	1,053
Individual counteraction	1,786	1,786
Backfire effect	1,357	1,357
Strategies regarding carriers	38	22,060
Regulation of social media	1,781	1,781
General strategy	2,872	2,872
Fact-checking	2,280	2,280
Facebook	2,592	2,592
Google	1,900	1,900
Legal and criminal sanctions in general	10,597	10,597
Strategies regarding the recipient	42	11,102
Cognitive biases of recipient	2,053	2,053
Nudges as reflection prompts	2,509	2,509
Media critical thinking skills	515	515
Mental immune health, inoculation and prebunking markup removed; cannot link (help)	5,983	5,983
History	14	34,760
Ancient	3,877	3,877
Medieval	876	876
Early modern	3,106	3,106
19th century	3,795	3,795
20th century	7,505	7,505
21st century	15,587	15,587
Special topics	22	26,374
Deepfakes and shallowfakes	5,555	5,555
Bots on social media	9,775	9,775
Internet trolls	3,684	3,684
Fake news hoaxes	7,338	7,338
Donald Trump's misuse of term	11,815	11,815
By country	17	132,810
Europe	15	44,902
Austria	1,098	1,098
Belgium	941	941
Czech Republic	1,833	1,833
European Union	932	932
Finland	1,219	1,219
France	5,482	5,482
Germany	5,705	5,705
Hungary	1,151	1,151
Italy	2,043	2,043
Malta	2,839	2,839
Netherlands	1,382	1,382
Poland	2,164	2,164
Romania	750	750
Russia	3,246	3,246
Serbia	4,013	4,013
Spain	1,953	1,953
Sweden	1,660	1,660
Ukraine	2,630	2,630
United Kingdom	3,846	3,846
Asia	13	40,667
China	5,014	7,157
Hong Kong	2,143	2,143
India	1,060	1,060
Indonesia	7,542	7,542
Malaysia	3,607	3,607
Myanmar (Burma)	1,230	1,230
Pakistan	1,022	1,022
Philippines	6,764	6,764
Singapore	8,629	8,629
South Korea	1,669	1,669
Taiwan	1,974	1,974
Americas	18	25,954
Brazil	7,418	7,418
Canada	1,515	1,515
Colombia	4,592	4,592
Mexico	12,274	12,274
United States	137	137
Middle East and Africa	31	18,804
Armenia	960	960
Israel and Palestinian territories	5,095	5,095
Saudi Arabia	3,554	3,554
Syria	3,827	3,827
United Arab Emirates	868	868
Egypt	849	849
South Africa	3,620	3,620
Oceania	17	2,466
Australia	2,449	2,449
See also	1,889	1,889
Notes	26	26
References	30	444
Sources	414	414
Further reading	4,153	4,153
External links	3,269	3,269
Total	302,825	302,825

I made an account just to say this page needs work

Hello Wikipedia, normally your pages are easy to read. This one is very long and has no table of contents or way to easily navigate it. Sorry I can't help. HeretoCriticize (talk) 21:54, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The History section is missing the Cold War entirely...

...and should be expanded. JackTheSecond (talk) 23:15, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Any ideas what should be added?--Jack Upland (talk) 23:26, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've been working on the German Service of the BBC for a while and got the impression that the BBC was broadcasting much more reliable news segments than really anyone else. By my impression, Radio propaganda seems to have been a major facet of the Cold War and the truthfulness of the various broadcasts seems to have varied by a lot.

But maybe general propaganda is outside the scope of this article. I don't really know. JackTheSecond (talk) 11:59, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would say it is, its why we have a whole article on it. Slatersteven (talk) 12:02, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's more the amount of additional information that covering the Cold War as well that'd be a problem, probably. Though, because of how the definition at the top does include 'propaganda', maybe we can add a section and include a link to the relevant articles. JackTheSecond (talk) 12:27, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Fake News" as a thing hardly existed before 2017. There was a proposal in 2005 to delete Fake_News since "propaganda" said it all. IMO, most of the old anecdotes (history, propaganda) should be reduced to pointers to the incidents or general articles. This article should distinguish the SEVERAL usages that have emerged since November, 2016. RichardFloyd (talk) 04:18, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"the House of Commons commenced an inquiry"

... and then what? Did anything come of it? What's the point of mentioning it? WP:NOTNEWS. 2601:642:4600:D3B0:56C:3F16:53EF:5265 (talk) 00:32, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The quoted section is not in the article. Neither are similar statements. JackTheSecond (talk) 12:29, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Marc Bloch

As you probably know, fake news was a topic this historian dealt with while he was in the trenches in the World War: as a historian he considered that it was not enough for his profession to dismiss them as "okay they are not true, so we are not interested in them," but that they themselves should be the subject of study. Perhaps this item could be related to "fake news" topic ? 151.49.40.45 (talk) 20:28, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]