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Misinformation in Media: A solution-oriented investigation into media-borne misinformation and ‘fake news’
In 2023, I worked with a team from the Paul Douglas Institute to investigate the linguistic markers of fake news. We used a dataset with 80,000 news articles, half fake and half real, and analyzed them using the Vader NLTK Lexicon for sentiment and the NRC Emotion Lexicon for emotion, as well as other analytical…