misp-taxonomies/misinformation-website-label/machinetag.json

{
  "namespace": "misinformation-website-label",
  "description": "classification for the identification of type of misinformation among websites. Source:False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical News Sources by Melissa Zimdars 2019",
  "version": 1,
  "predicates": [
    {
      "value": "fake-news",
      "expanded": "Fake news",
      "description": "Sources that fabricate information, disseminate deceptive content, or grossly distort actual news reports"
    },
    {
      "value": "satire",
      "expanded": "Satire",
      "description": "Sources that use humor, irony, exaggeration, ridicule, and false information to comment current events"
    },
    {
      "value": "extreme-bias",
      "expanded": "'Extreme' Bias",
      "description": "Sources that come from a particular point of view and may rely on propaganda, decontextualized information, opinions distorded as facts"
    },
    {
      "value": "conspiracy",
      "expanded": "Conspiracy",
      "description": "Sources that are well-known promoters of kooky conspiracy theories. Ex: 9/11 conspiracies, chem-trails, lizard people in the sewer systems, birther rumors, flat earth theory fluoride as mind control, vaccines as mind control etc"
    },
    {
      "value": "rumor",
      "expanded": "Rumor Mill",
      "description": "Sources that traffic in rumors, gossip, innuendo, unverified claims"
    },
    {
      "value": "state-news",
      "expanded": "State News",
      "description": "Sources in repressive states operating under government sanction"
    },
    {
      "value": "junk-sciences",
      "expanded": "Junk Sciences",
      "description": "Sources that promotes pseudo-sciences, metaphysics, naturalistic fallacies, and other scientificallt dubious claims"
    },
    {
      "value": "hate-news",
      "expanded": "Hate News",
      "description": "Sources that promote racism, misogyny, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination"
    },
    {
      "value": "clickbait",
      "expanded": "Clickbait",
      "description": "Sources that provide generally credible content, but use exaggerated, misleading, OR questionable headlines, social media descriptions, and/or images.  These sources may also use sensational language to generate interest, clickthroughs, and shares, but their content is typically verifiable"
    },
    {
      "value": "proceed-with-caution",
      "expanded": "Proceed with caution-unreliable",
      "description": "Sources that may be reliable but whose contents require further verification or to be read in conjunction with other sources"
    },
    {
      "value": "political",
      "expanded": "Political",
      "description": "Sources that provide generally verifiable information in support of certain points of view or political orientations"
    },
    {
      "value": "credible",
      "expanded": "Credible-reliable",
      "description": "Sources that circulate news and information in a manner consistent with traditional and ethical practices in journalism"
    },
    {
      "value": "unknown",
      "expanded": "Unknown-unidentified",
      "description": "Sources that have not yet been analyzed (many of these were suggested by readers/users or are found on other lists and resources)."
    }
  ],
  "values": [
    {
      "predicate": "satire",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "humor",
          "expanded": "Humor"
        },
        {
          "value": "irony",
          "expanded": "Irony"
        },
        {
          "value": "exaggeration",
          "expanded": "Exaggeration"
        },
        {
          "value": "false-information",
          "expanded": "False information"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "predicate": "extreme-bias",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "propaganda",
          "expanded": "Propaganda"
        },
        {
          "value": "decontextualized-information",
          "expanded": "Decontextualized Information"
        },
        {
          "value": "opinions-distorded-as-facts",
          "expanded": "Opinions distorded as facts"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "predicate": "rumor",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "rumors",
          "expanded": "Rumors"
        },
        {
          "value": "gossip",
          "expanded": "Gossip"
        },
        {
          "value": "innuendo",
          "expanded": "Innuendo"
        },
        {
          "value": "unverified-claims",
          "expanded": "Unverified Claims"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "predicate": "hate-news",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "racism",
          "expanded": "Racism"
        },
        {
          "value": "misogyny",
          "expanded": "Misogyny"
        },
        {
          "value": "homophobia",
          "expanded": "Homophobia"
        },
        {
          "value": "discrimination-other",
          "expanded": "Discrimination other"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}