American left-wing political Facebook page and website
Occupy Democrats
Available in
English
Headquarters
United States
Owner
Omar Rivero and Rafael Rivero
Key people
Grant Stern (executive editor)[1][2]
URL
occupydemocrats.com washingtonpress.com
Launched
2012; 12 years ago (2012)
Current status
Online
Occupy Democrats is an American left-wing[8] media outlet built around a Facebook page and corresponding website. Established in 2012, it publishes false information,[14] hyperpartisan content,[20] and clickbait.[23] Posts originating from the Occupy Democrats Facebook page are among the most widely shared political content on Facebook.[24]
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^Kilander, Gustaf (August 5, 2021). "'Occupy' leader claims police 'dragged' him out of Kevin McCarthy presser for asking about Capitol riot commission". The Independent. Archived from the original on March 31, 2023. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
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^ abDwoskin, Elizabeth (September 4, 2021). "Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election, study says". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 21, 2021. Retrieved October 22, 2022. The team then took 2,551 of these pages and compared the interactions on posts on pages by publishers known for misinformation, such as the left-leaning Occupy Democrats...
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^ abForney, Ben (September 25, 2017). "All the Fake News That's Fit to Print". Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Archived from the original on August 17, 2023. Retrieved January 4, 2021. Today, partisan Facebook groups such as Occupy Democrats continue to share both real and fake news to their millions of followers, further blurring the line between fact and fiction.
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^ ab"Breitbart, Occupy Democrats among list of alleged fake, misleading news sites to avoid". KING-TV. November 17, 2016. Archived from the original on January 11, 2021. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
^ abRae, Maria (March 5, 2020). "Hyperpartisan news: Rethinking the media for populist politics". New Media and Society. 23 (5): 1117–1132. doi:10.1177/1461444820910416. S2CID 216172926. Archived from the original on January 5, 2022. Retrieved January 4, 2021. Occupy Democrats are likewise focused on attacking Trump ... through their clickbait style of reporting, which has been criticised as 'fake news'.
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^Barfar, Arash (December 1, 2019). "Cognitive and affective responses to political disinformation in Facebook". Computers in Human Behavior. 101: 175. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2019.07.026. ISSN 0747-5632. S2CID 199884854. Archived from the original on December 9, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2021 – via Science Direct. To construct the political disinformation sample, we focused on Facebook posts from ten popular sources that are known for promulgating political disinformation in Facebook...Among the selected hyper-partisan disinformation sources...Addicting Info, AlterNet, Daily KOS, and Occupy Democrats are extreme Liberal.
^Marwick, Alice E. (March 22, 2018). "Why do People Share Fake News? A Sociotechnical Model of Media Effects". The Georgetown Law Technology Review. 2 (2). Georgetown University Law Center: 474–513. Archived from the original on August 17, 2023. Retrieved July 10, 2021 – via Gale OneFile. The term "fake news"...expanded to include hyper-partisan news sites like Breitbart, DailyCaller, and Occupy Democrats...
^LaFrance, Adrienne (December 15, 2020). "Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on July 5, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2021. Zuckerberg authorized a tweak to the Facebook algorithm so that high-accuracy news sources such as NPR would receive preferential visibility in people's feeds, and hyper-partisan pages such as Breitbart News's and Occupy Democrats' would be buried...
^Horne, Benjamin D.; Dron, William; Khedr, Sara; Adali, Sibel (April 23, 2018). "Assessing the News Landscape: A Multi-Module Toolkit for Evaluating the Credibility of News". Companion of the Web Conference 2018 on the Web Conference 2018 - WWW '18. Lyon, France: International World Wide Web Conference. pp. 235–238. doi:10.1145/3184558.3186987. ISBN 978-1-4503-5640-4. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
^Sturm Wilkerson, Heloisa; Riedl, Martin J.; Whipple, Kelsey N. (April 14, 2021). "Affective Affordances: Exploring Facebook Reactions as Emotional Responses to Hyperpartisan Political News". Digital Journalism. 9 (8): 1040–1061. doi:10.1080/21670811.2021.1899011. ISSN 2167-0811. S2CID 234853464. Archived from the original on July 15, 2021. Retrieved July 15, 2021. In this study, we focus our attention on hyperpartisan news content from the left (e.g. NowThis, Upworthy, The Young Turks, Occupy Democrats)...
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^Faris, Robert M.; Roberts, Hal; Etling, Bruce; Bourassa, Nikki; Zuckerman, Ethan; Benkler, Yochai (2017). "Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election". Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. ISSN 3375-9251. Archived from the original on October 23, 2022. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
^Carrasco-Farré, Carlos (May 9, 2022). "The fingerprints of misinformation: how deceptive content differs from reliable sources in terms of cognitive effort and appeal to emotions". Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 9 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1057/s41599-022-01174-9. ISSN 2662-9992. S2CID 248682693.
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