{"title":"Spotting fake in the news: an easy task?","authors":"O. Gryshchenko, G. Tsapro","doi":"10.31499/2415-8828.2.2021.246055","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Fake news is a widespread element of the nowadays news websites. The research focuses on students’ abilities to detect fake news stories. 72 % of respondents successfully identified fake texts. The experiment proves that students concentrate on reading texts carefully, check their credibility, facts and pictures that accompany news texts. Students believe that among linguistic features that contribute to creating fake news texts there is repetition of lexemes, illogical structure of narration, exaggeration, confusing numbers. It was also pointed out that photos do not illustrate information given in fake texts.","PeriodicalId":180896,"journal":{"name":"Philological Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Philological Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.31499/2415-8828.2.2021.246055","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Fake news is a widespread element of the nowadays news websites. The research focuses on students’ abilities to detect fake news stories. 72 % of respondents successfully identified fake texts. The experiment proves that students concentrate on reading texts carefully, check their credibility, facts and pictures that accompany news texts. Students believe that among linguistic features that contribute to creating fake news texts there is repetition of lexemes, illogical structure of narration, exaggeration, confusing numbers. It was also pointed out that photos do not illustrate information given in fake texts.