Pranisha Khadka Sherry Sharifian Govt 2305 22nd November,2017 Fake News Fake news has always been dispersed across the society since the ancient days. However, in the current age of the technology, the social media use has increased the rate at which the news reaches other users. In the ancient days, though there was fake news, the conveyance of the fake news was not viral as it is today. 1 Today, 88% of young people get the news via social media. The lack of know-how of the sites that are spreading fake news has impacted the lives of many youths who do not know how to distinguish the fake news from the real news. It is necessary to understand how one can identify fake news and the impact of the fake news in the democracy. …show more content…
The news of a given celebrities like politicians, musicians among others must be received without bias. An individual who doesn’t examine the news before he determines the truth of the news is mostly like to consume fake news. In order to distinguish the information that is correct from the fake, one has to put the bias he possesses toward people or products on a check. By doing so, such individual will not automatically believe on a given information given without getting the correct details concerning the individual or products. It is a difficult task to do but necessary for the consumption of the correct information rather than be entangled in …show more content…
On the other hand, the news on the online has proved to the users that the Russia government had a hand on the Trump campaigns with a promise of goodies. The numbers of people who accept as true that Russia was convoluted the Trump campaign have shared the fake news largely in the social media as opposed to the truth of the matter as told by the White House.
Distinguishing fake news from the factual news has become harder to wipe them today. This is cause the fake news spreads today to millions of the people repeatedly, creating a belief that they are true even when they have a reason not to believe they are true. The accessibility of the information in the social media platform has made it possible to reach more people of the world. The consumed fake news by the social media users makes it harder to wipe the already conceived truth of the fake news.
Fake news is quickly accepted by the consumers because of their look appealing to the readers. The fake news headlines are provocative to the readers hence the acceptability in the media platform as opposed to legitimate news which is kept to standards, so as to meet the intention of the writer of giving information to the