By Joshua Bowling | The Republic
Dozens of fake news sites are registered in the city, but that doesn’t mean the people running the sites are Scottsdale residents
Scottsdale is home to many things: Cactus League spring training, hiking trails, the high-profile Barrett-Jackson car auction and, apparently, fake news.
A recent PolitiFact story assembled a database of websites around the world classified as parody, imposter and fake news sites. Of the 201 listed, 64 are registered in Scottsdale — nearly one-third.
While parody sites publish articles that contain false information usually based on current events, imposter sites try hard to look like a legitimate news site and fake news sites publish demonstrably false information.
As fake news came to the forefront of public attention after the U.S. presidential election, platforms such as Facebook have focused on ways to combat the spread of misinformation.
