@rslade wrote:
Some serious academic study on "fake news" ...
That paper is lacking as an academic study due to the fact that the authors only reference their own prior publications. I have not checked any of those cited papers to see if they are more appropriately broad in coverage. They may provide a solid base for the list in the cited paper.
But, going along with the theme, see the very recent paper prepared for the December 2018 US Army Cyber Defense Review journal,
A Model for Evaluating Fake News by Sample, Justice, & Darraj.
and a closely related conference paper by the same authors,
Fake News: A Method to Measure Distance from Fact
included in the
Workshop on Identifying and Combating Disinformation in Big Data
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Talk is available on YouTube
[Note: the authors are all academic colleagues of mine.]
