Editing Hoax (section)

==Hoax news==
{{main|Fake news}}
Hoax news (also referred to as fake news<ref>{{citation|url=http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/12/09/hillary-clinton-warns-about-hoax-news-on-social-media/|access-date=11 December 2016|work=[[WJZ-TV]]|title=Hillary Clinton Warns About Hoax News On Social Media|date=9 December 2016|first=Devin|last=Bartolotta|archive-date=4 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204185951/https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/12/09/hillary-clinton-warns-about-hoax-news-on-social-media/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/12/08/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-says-people-dont-want-hoax-news-really/|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=8 December 2016|access-date=11 December 2016|title=Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg says people don't want 'hoax' news. Really?|first=Erik|last=Wemple|archive-date=27 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227223737/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/12/08/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-says-people-dont-want-hoax-news-really/|url-status=live}}</ref>) is a news report containing facts that are either inaccurate or false but which are presented as genuine.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Zannettou Savvas|last2=Sirivianos Michael|last3=Blackburn Jeremy|last4=Kourtellis Nicolas|date=2019-05-07|title=The Web of False Information|journal=Journal of Data and Information Quality  |language=EN|volume=10|issue=3|pages=4|doi=10.1145/3309699|doi-access=free|arxiv=1804.03461}}</ref> A hoax news report conveys a [[half-truth]] used deliberately to mislead the public.<ref>{{Citation|last=Fallis|first=Don|title=The Varieties of Disinformation|date=2014|work=The Philosophy of Information Quality|pages=135–161|editor-last=Floridi|editor-first=Luciano|series=Synthese Library|volume=358|publisher=Springer International Publishing|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-07121-3_8|isbn=978-3-319-07121-3|editor2-last=Illari|editor2-first=Phyllis}}</ref>

Hoax may serve the goal of propaganda or [[disinformation]] – using social media to drive [[web traffic]] and amplify their effect.<ref name="russiadominates">{{citation|title=Trolls for Trump – How Russia Dominates Your Twitter Feed to Promote Lies (And, Trump, Too)|date=6 August 2016|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/06/how-russia-dominates-your-twitter-feed-to-promote-lies-and-trump-too.html|author1=Weisburd, Andrew|author2=Watts, Clint|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|access-date=24 November 2016|archive-date=31 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531031716/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/06/how-russia-dominates-your-twitter-feed-to-promote-lies-and-trump-too.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="snopesfieldguide">{{citation|url=http://www.snopes.com/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/|access-date=19 November 2016|date=2 November 2016|work=[[Snopes.com]]|title=Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors – Snopes.com's updated guide to the internet's clickbaiting, news-faking, social media exploiting dark side.|first=Kim|last=LaCapria|archive-date=28 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628060536/https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="divideeurope">{{citation|title='Divide Europe': European lawmakers warn of Russian propaganda|date=11 October 2016|url=http://www.dw.com/en/divide-europe-european-lawmakers-warn-of-russian-propaganda/a-36016836|first=Lewis|last=Sanders IV|work=[[Deutsche Welle]]|access-date=24 November 2016|archive-date=25 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325134130/https://www.dw.com/en/divide-europe-european-lawmakers-warn-of-russian-propaganda/a-36016836|url-status=live}}</ref> Unlike [[news satire]], fake news websites seek to mislead, rather than entertain, readers for financial or political gain.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html|title=The Agency|last=Chen|first=Adrian|date=2015-06-02|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-12-25|archive-date=28 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428103405/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="snopesfieldguide" />

Hoax news is usually released with the intention of misleading to injure an organisation, individual, or person, and/or benefit financially or politically, sometimes utilising sensationalist, deceptive, or simply invented headlines to maximise readership. Likewise, clickbait reports and articles from this operation gain advertisement revenue.{{cn|date=June 2024}}