This article is prepared to demonstrate the distribution of false stories through time and the interactions of teyit.org's article.
This report shows most popular false stories, based on the 29 unique news content that were investigated and debunked by teyit.org editors during election.
Since the date of Turkey’s snap election was announced, hundreds of miscaptions appeared on social media with political claims attached.
Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections will take place on June 24, 2018. As the election day nears, false images take hold of the popular venues of discussion. Even though the spread of false news during pre-election periods is nothing new and certainly not peculiar to Turkey, the problem of disinformation stands bigger of a problem in the perspective of this election cycle due to the timing of the election and the sources of said disinformation.
After the Nationalist Movement Party Chairman Devlet Bahçeli suggested that there must be an early election, President Erdogan has held a press conference announcing that elections will be held at June 24th after meeting Bahçeli on April 18th.
Towards the election, the notices about suspicious news sent to teyit.org to be confirmed have increased by 80 percent compared to beginning of the year.
First insight report of teyit.org has been published regarding the suspicious contents that users send to us in the last year. Entitled “What do we doubt on the web?” and prepared by the data of 7,628 text messages that followers of teyit.org sent because of their unsureness for the truth of the news and their requests for receiving the truth.
While explaining the problem of fake news, we often mention about effects of echo chambers, to which we confine ourselves on social media, and of filter bubbles created by algorithms on emergence and spread of these kinds of stories.
