排名最前的假新聞故事
A BuzzFeed News analysis has identified the 50 fake news stories that attracted the most engagement on Facebook this year. Together they totaled 21.5 million likes, comments, and shares. Of these stories, 23 were about US politics, two were about women using their vaginas as murder weapons, and one was about a clown doll that actually was a person the whole time.
一個由BuzzFeed News（譯者注：類似今日頭條的新聞蒐集網站）所做的分析揭示了本年度Facebook上流傳最廣的50條假新聞。他們加起來大約有2150萬次的點贊、評論及分享。在這些新聞裏，23條和美國政治相關，2條關於女人用她們的陰道作爲謀殺用的兇器，還有1條關於一個小丑娃娃其實一直都是個真人。BuzzFeed News defined “fake news” as news that was verifiably “100 percent false” and drawn from a list of 96 websites purposely created to disseminate false information.
BuzzFeed News將“假新聞”定義爲已經被驗證“100%是假的”，並且列出了96家喜歡傳播這些虛假信息的網站。You can read the full list of stories, but here are the top five:
你可以點擊此處瀏覽全部的假新聞，這裏列出的是排名前五的假新聞：
●"Obama Signs Executive Order Banning The Pledge Of Allegiance In Schools Nationwide"
● “奧巴馬簽署行政令禁止學校讀效忠宣言”●"Woman arrested for defecating on boss’ desk after winning the lottery"
● “女子中彩票後在老闆桌上排便被捕”●"Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump for President, Releases Statement"
● “教皇方濟各公開宣稱支持特朗普”●"Trump Offering Free One-Way Tickets to Africa & Mexico for Those Who Wanna Leave America"
● “特朗普爲想要離開美國的公民提供非洲或墨西哥單程機票”●"Cinnamon Roll Can Explodes Inside Man’s Butt During Shoplifting Incident"
● “肉桂卷會在人類屁股內爆炸”Notably, the domain name for the top fake news story of the year is “.” In a November interview with The Verge, Professor Nicole A. Cooke of the University of Illinois’ School of Information Sciences cited the slight modification of familiar domains as a particularly dangerous and common tactic for fake news sites. They make the source look reputable at first glance. The man who operates told The Washington Post that he believes his websites were a key factor in the election of Donald Trump.
值得注意的是，本年度傳播假消息之首的網站域名當屬“.” 在十一月的一次Verge的採訪中，伊利諾伊州大學信息科學學院的Nicole A. Cooke教授引用了一個假新聞網站上的消息，這個假新聞網站使用的是危險和普遍的策略，即域名和真網站看上去只有微小的區別。他們讓消息源從第一眼看上去具備真實性。管理的人告訴華盛頓郵報，他相信他的網站在特朗普大選期間充當了一個重要的因素。And, at random, some other highlights from the list:
我們再來看看名單裏一些其他的亮點：●"Florida man dies in meth-lab explosion after lighting farts on fire"
● “佛羅里達一男子在毒品實驗室放屁引發火災，後死於爆炸”●"President Obama Confirms He Will Refuse To Leave Office If Trump Is Elected"
● “奧巴馬總統證實，如果特朗普當選他將拒絕離開白宮”●Van Full Of Illegals Shows Up To Vote Clinton At SIX Polling Places, Still Think Voter Fraud Is A Myth?
● 一羣非法投票人在六個投票點出現給希拉里投票，你們還以爲選民騙局是假的嗎？●"Man shoots off his own penis taking selfies with gun"
● “一男子持槍自拍時不小心把自己JJ射了”●“Girl Infects 586 Men With HIV On Purpose, Plans On Infecting 2,000 More Before 2017 - TRENDING”
● “一艾滋病女子故意傳播艾滋病給586名男子，計劃在2017年之前傳染2000人以上”You might want to hope that people shared these articles as a joke. I want to hope that. But we can’t: the analysis points to a recent BuzzFeed and Ipsos Public Affairs poll which found that 75 percent of Americans (84 percent of Republicans and 71 percent of Democrats) were easily tricked by fake headlines. What a fantastic year for fact-checking and rational thought and Mark Zuckerberg’s self-awareness.
你可能希望分享這些文章的人是出於開玩笑，我也是這麼想的。但是我們不能：這個分析指出，通過一個近期的BuzzFeed和Ipsos的公衆事務民調顯示，75%的美國人（84%的共和黨人以及71%的民主黨人）很容易就被假新聞的標題所欺騙。這是關於真實性調查、理性思維、扎克伯格的自我意識的夢幻一年。
