Is it ‘Fake News’? Intelligence Community expertise and news dissemination as measurements for media reliability

Hector Rendon; Alyson Wilson; Jared Stegall

doi:10.1080/02684527.2018.1507381

Is it ‘Fake News’? Intelligence Community expertise and news dissemination as measurements for media reliability

Hector Rendon, Alyson Wilson, Jared Stegall

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Self-communication platforms have generated a myriad of outlets and news producers that represent a challenge for modern societies. Therefore, it is relevant to explore new measurements that can help understand whether a specific outlet disseminating news could be considered reliable or not. This study is based on the expertise from the U.S. Intelligence Community to offer a statistical model that replicates the reliability measurements based on intelligence expertise. The results suggest that a classification algorithm could be useful to measure news media reliability. Additionally, different variables were identified to predict perceptions of media reliability.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1040-1052
Number of pages	13
Journal	Intelligence and National Security
Volume	33
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2018.1507381
State	Published - Nov 10 2018
Externally published	Yes

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