The Controversy Of Fake News

On the internet there are hundreds of thousands of different news articles, but not all of them are real. Fake news is a type of hoax or deliberate misinformation that you can find almost anywhere mostly because of social networking platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and News Feed.

Fake news is taking over the U.S. Only 26% of Americans are confident that they can tell the difference between misinformation and the truth. Statistics show that over 65% of Americans are biased toward topics they like or believe in. Cecelia Ahern demonstrates how bias can be used in government situations. In this government bias people also spread bias and fake news.

The Comet Ping Pong story, and the even more disturbing news of the Kremlin’s role in our election, merely underscore fake news’s rapid ascent from an amorphous notion to perhaps the most significant digital epidemic facing the media, government, and, at the risk of sounding mildly hysterical, democracy itself. One Pakistani military offender, confused by a fake-news story, raised the prospect of a nuclear war with Israel. (Recall that Michael Flynn Jr., the son of Trump’s national security adviser, shared the Comet Ping Pong story on Twitter.) Meanwhile, our current president spent virtually his entire campaign inventing or proliferating fabricated stories such as his suggestion that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the plot to assassinate

One of the several political issues America faces today is fake news. Any person can go on the news and will see numerous articles stating how President Trump makes accusations that the news is fake (or at least most of it is). In Macbeth, there are Weird Sisters, and they can be compared to fake

Blogs and news channels that we read and watch everyday are broadcasting their bias opinions and beliefs claiming that it is true facts. In the articles such as , Confirmation Bias, by David McRaney and Why Fake News Is So Effective by the New York Times, they explain that people don't look at all the information put out there real, or fake. Fake news is just another word for journalism satire , it's satire that exaggerates the lies

To anyone looking to avoid fake news, Leonard Pitts says to read a newspaper. Pitts points out that there is a difference in satire and fake news such an SNL skit being made to poke fun at news sources being compared to a story about Donald Trump being assassinated. The New York Time's recent case study explains that fake news arises due to people not bothering to fact check the articles they share online. Fake News has become popular in conservative communities and in those looking to confirm that they are the true victims. The alt-right movement and its supporters have lead us into a spiral of misinformation and fake reality.

The fact is, there is no problem more real than fake news and it’s time for the public to educate themselves on it.

Fake news is a problem that has affected everyone, especially politics, you’ve might of encounter them before but they’re hard to indicate them. Fake news are false articles or stories that are passed down as true. These fake news are categorized into three different spots. The categories are Satirical news, clickbait, and Partisan bias articles. Satirical news or satire is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism. According to merriam-webster clickbait is “something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest”. Partisan bias articles are articles made by an adherent or supporter of a person, group, and party that shows favors of or shows being against one thing. Even though there many articles out there, Indicating whether they’re real is hard but not impossible.

When children are growing up in a world of media, they start learning the fake news before they know how to tell the difference. If students are not taught how to distinguish the fake news from the real news they will never develop proper arguments and accusations. America’s tradition of media basis

In 2017, we can presume fake news is all around us. The concept of fake news sprung up during the 2016 presidential election between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. With the election being so controversial and a topic of interest, companies began generating stories that were untrue with the hope of it bringing a like or click to their Facebook or Twitter page. Even television news has been cited as containing fake news. A more recent example being that of Trump and Fox News, where he quoted a false claim from a report that was allowed to air on the network. This brings us to the question, what definition can best describe fake news?

In the recent presidential election, fake news has been widely circulated, and now, there is a dangerous movement to counter it. However, fake news must first be acknowledged as a serious problem. On December 4, 2016, Edgar Welch carried an assault rifle into Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington, DC, and fired a shot under the premise of liberating child sex slaves held captive by Hillary Clinton there. The entire conspiracy, dubbed as “pizzagate”, was perpetrated through social media and fake news outlets in an attempt to discredit Secretary Clinton (Siddiqui and Svrluga). This single event shows how dangerous fake news has become and how it has affected the lives of everyday Americans. Here is a man from North Carolina that has been influenced by fake news circulating the internet, and as a result, he endangers the lives of others and his own in hopes of proving a false rumor true. However, the most worrying part about fake news is how the government is about to limit freedom of the press under the guise of countering fake news. On December 23, 2016, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. However, hidden within the NDAA was a different act titled, “Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692).” This act provides funding for the US Government to counter

Fake news can make you think differently towards many things, it can even change the way you think about an upcoming election or a new law. The way fake news gets spread around is simple. It gets shared over and over again on the internet and social media. There are some easy ways to spot fake news but sometimes it is not so easy to do so. Fake news can change the way we think and change our beliefs towards democracy in many ways.

Fake news is something that has been around since news itself began. More recently though the frequency of fake news has been trending upward. This is due to multiple different reasons. These include the rise in social media and also simple advancements in technology. In today’s society, just about anyone capable of using the internet is capable of posting an article. On the flipside, just about anyone capable of using the internet are exposing themselves to fake news. Another reason for the large spread of fake news is that people are simply just not educated on the how to determine what’s trust worthy and what is not. Some people are so oblivious that when fronted something real and factual their minds will still deny the evidence in front of them in a phenomenon known as the backfire effect. Fake news is a part of today’s society, and the only way to avoid it is through the knowledge of how to determine what is actually credible.

Many individuals have the idea in the back of their minds that the sources they know cannot fall victims of fake news. Most of the false report that goes for surprise value and produces false stories is not as recognized. Look

Recently, there has been much fake news and unreliable sources online. The term “fake news,” as President Trump believes, is any story that damages the reputation of a certain group, but the most commonly used definition of fake news is any report or article based on lies. As for unreliable sources, these are sources that cannot be trusted because the authors do not have the through knowledge or credentials to discuss the topic they are writing about. The main difference between fake news and unreliable sources is that fake news is stories that are untrue; however, for unreliable sources, the articles written might not be necessarily false, but the people who write the stories are not certified to write about the topic.