The Positive And Negative Effects Of Social Media

Fake new became a popular topic in news regarding politically aligned news channels and outlets. For example, YourNewsWire is an online news outlet based in Los Angeles. Based on this website, Hillary Clinton’s victory in the popular vote was due to voter fraud of 25 million votes (Kosoff). YourNewsWire used evidence of an investigation the NPR, National Public Radio, conducted. Though the article’s claim of voter fraud seemed compelling, as evidence was to support the argument was supple. Yet the evidence was incorrectly used. The NPR was involved in this investigation of voter fraud, but only published the information as Pew Research Center conducted the analysis of credibility. Another piece of falsified data is that the investigation was not conducted as a means to discredit Hillary Clinton’s victory in the popular vote, as the investigation was completed in 2012, prior to Clinton and Trump’s campaign for office. This is only one example of skewed stories and biased articles. The creators of YourNewsWire, Sean Adl-tabatabai and husband, Sinclair Treadway, were politically aligned with Bernie Sanders for the 2016 election (Baum). The reputation that YourNewsWire has created for itself has plummeted. Google no longer supports this website with ad-sponsored money, and other accredited websites, such as Snopes, investigate the validity of news articles such as these and discredit their findings

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

Fake news is bad for anyone who is reading it. It causes drama. Leads people to the wrong conclusion. It also gives people false information.

Fake news is a current buzz phrase, a term that is fashionable in popular culture to describe the field of journalism today. Underpinned by negative connotations and widespread misunderstanding of the term’s meaning, the fake news of today is the so-called yellow journalism of yesterday (U.S. Diplomacy, n.d.). Yellow journalism, or a type of reporting that prioritizes sensationalism over facts, has been circulating in one form or another since ancient times: in ancient Rome, Octavion won his famed battle against Marc Anthony using a disinformation campaign that painted his political opponent as “a degenerate Roman striving to subvert the liberties of the Roman people to subjugate Italy and the west under the rule of an Oriental queen”

By definition, “fake news”, also known as “hoax news”, refers to fake information or propaganda published under the guise of being authentic news (Stroud). A much more colorful definition is made by Politifact, a site dedicated to checking whether a story is false or not, which says “Fake news is made-up stuff, masterfully manipulated to look like credible journalistic reports that are easily spread online to large audiences willing to believe the fictions and spread the word" (Stroud). But what is there to gain from spreading false stories to ruin

Fake News, a form of news that more and more people fall for everyday, is false news that is used to sway public opinion. In times of war media has been used to establish certain feelings about the war or whatever crisis that is going on. During both the Vietnam and Cold War media was constantly improving. People were able to get news faster and in new forms. Unfortunately this did not have a positive impact on public opinion, in fact it inflicted fear among the people of the United States. Media was used to dramatize the bad parts of each war. During the Vietnam War reports were misconstrued to change political opinions. Reporters did not see a purpose in the war and to make the United States look poorly they began to report the worst of the

News is around us everywhere. Everything we do we will always see or hear about what is going on in the world. Even if it is real or fake. Fake news is misleading. Many people suffer from fake news because they don't know what to believe. The fakes news stimulates from a hoax of someone dying or something crazy happening in the world that is not true. People think its true because they think since it is heard or seen everywhere that it is true. This fake news is not broadcast to make people laugh like parody it is to mislead people for their gain. Fake news can gain from their audience financially and or polity. Fake news is to persuade their audience politically especially when it is time to vote. Many of the misleading things that is broadcast in fake news causes the audience to backlash and get angry.

In today’s ever-changing world the news media no longer acts as before. The days in which the media reported the “actual facts”, are gone. Instead, media content is shaped by economics and politics. Many people have become lazy, in that, most do not conduct their own research and rely too much on the media. This results in people becoming too trusting of the media. Typically, reporters and networks put their own “spin” on stories. For example, Fox news is known to lean more towards a republican base while CNN and MSNBC

True information in American politics is key. The news article This is how you stop fake news on The Washington Post written by Adam J. Berinsky, is though provoking and makes the reader realize how myths can easily be perceives as the truth. The author uses a few examples of both “fake news” such as false claims made by Donald Trump and other claims about past presidents. He explains how easy it is for political information to be amended to have a different meaning. Through this, they seek to leave either a positive impact for the writer or leave a negative image on the one(s) they are against.

BuzzFeed News reports, “Fake election headlines about the elections fooled American adults about 75% of the time ”.

What is fake news? It is when people create news/ articles without proof of reliable information or facts. Fake news is an issue because it taps into people’s emotions, leading viewers into believing something terrible an unwanted has happened when in fact it has not really occurred. It appears everywhere, the internet, social media, the news, etc. regularly. Anyone can be responsible for the appearance of fake news, with technology these days anybody could get online and create an article with misleading information. Consequently, fake news can be quite humorous at times, it affects everyone, not just the people/ persons involved.

Fake news is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media. Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to gain financially or politically, often with sensationalist, exaggerated, or patently false headlines that grab attention. Intentionally misleading and deceptive fake news is different from obvious satire or parody which is intended to humor rather than mislead its audience. We can identify two categories; stories that may have some truth in them, but are biased or based on unreliable sources and deliberately false stories, designed to mislead and cause confusion. This generation’s fake news often employs eye-catching headlines or entirely fabricated news stories to increase readership, online sharing and Internet click revenue. In the latter case, it is similar to sensational online "click bait" headlines and relies on advertising revenue generated from this activity, regardless of the veracity of the published stories. Fake news also undermines serious media coverage and makes it more difficult for journalists to cover significant news stories. Fake news is not a new concept. It has a long and brutal history from 15th century anti-semitism and a mysterious 18th Century earthquake through to ‘pizzagate’ and the Pope’s apparent support of Donald Trump.I will use “#PIZZAGATE,” which went viral as an example.

Merriam-Webster describes fake news as ‘a self explanatory compound noun.’ Fake: (adj.) false, counterfeit. News: (n.) material reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscast. This establishes the definition of fake news to mean false material reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscast. False claims of fake news can prove incredibly harmful for journalists who work to provide quality news from trusted sources. Media bias and claims of fake news are destroying journalism’s reputation of reporting credible news.

Fake News is all around us. Scrolling through Twitter, Facebook, and even Snapchat, one could find a great deal of misleading information or fabricated stories. It is fairly easy to come across articles with captivating headlines that are tempting to click on, however apps that are a part of the majority’s everyday life are feeding fake news daily to people all over the world. The term “fake news” is widely used by Trump’s administration to create room for their own narrative and discredit ‘dishonest media’ (Sykes 4). Dishonest media could refer to anything that goes against their views. With all of this chatter of fake news, it makes one wonder if the information the American people is getting is factual or not. In order to help combat this issue, websites such as Snopes and Fake News Watch address fake news from the source. These websites do this by checking the author, the date, the websites bias, and any other contributing factors. Recently in the dissemination of news, word of a Russian Hacker claims that he ‘regrets’ his role in helping put President Trump into Office. The Russian hacker claims that he was a part of a global organization to help Donald Trump take the Office by leaking damaging information about the Clintons. While it is true that there was some Russian play in the Presidential Election, it is fake news because it comes from a false news source, the article is used for liberals confirmation bias, and the article states that it has a satirical nature.