Verkkomost people may be poorly equipped to discern when they are being deceived by deepfakes. (2018) found that people correctly identify. Verkkofive sites let users block or mute other users from appearing on their news feed, six let users report either accounts or posts, and four allow users to. Verkkoalternative news media (anm) see themselves in opposition to an identified mainstream in media and society (holt et al. , 2019; Verkkothis study explores the alternative social media sites bitchute, gab, gettr, parler, rumble, telegram and truth social as an emerging part of the news. Verkkoour study revealed that alternative news users are not a homogeneous group and that their views of what constitutes alternative media. Verkkoensafi’s team found that censorship is increasing in 103 of the countries studied, including unexpected places like norway, japan, italy, india,. Verkkoalternative voices received more citations in total from our us sample than traditional media, but mainstream media brands and their journalists still accounted for 42% of. Verkkoneil blain, university of stirling.