Fake News is usually an informational hoax or deliberate dissemination of misinformation in social media and in the media in order to obtain financial or political benefits. I think that fake news is accurate term for such thing because such news definitely bear fallacy and delusion.
After I have red these articles about fake news, I became even more convinced that media, in every way, tries to influence society, and spreading of fake news is not an exception. I was kind of frustrated how people can easily undergo the affect of wrong news which rely on not facts but data.
I rather agree that “America losing its mind” because during this interim, specifically 20th century, a tremendous amount of fake news overflows American television and other media resources. Starting from threatening people by the unproved fact of the visitation of extraterrestrials to the conspiracy over the 9/11 accident.
For me, the most surprising elements of “America losing its mind” article were how effectively people can fall under influence of politics and people who are interested in controlling the nation, and also unreasonable people’s faith in such news that are obviously untrue.
On my mind, Facebook should have created some kind of census long time ago. However, nobody is interesting in such fact that people are predominantly controlled by the internet nowadays. Facebook should track any news that gather a huge attention from the side of users and is supposed to supervise the truthiness of certain posts. Thus, people will be getting used to the constant supervising of posts they read and become more confiding concerning the information such posts were written about. The analogical census is supposed to be imposed on such websites as Youtube where it’s partly affects in terms of permission of appearance of videos that carry sexual content which is inappropriate for this website. Twitter has basically no control over the posts people write and it isw partly right because people frequently write their thoughts and it would have been incorrect to let or not let posting certain opinions. Furthermore, Twitter was initially created for such people who want to share their ideas and beliefs. However, lots of politicians use Twitter as their first and only source of electronic communication with their audience, therefore certain individuals should fall under the supervision of services of such websites. Absolutely, these websites have to be beholden by the companies that had created them long time ago, not by the government or people who would be abusing such responsibility.
I assume that people are overfed by the fake news and in my opinion it’s sadly to see that people do not do any actions toward fixing that. Moreover, it’s scary how people may sometimes act according to news that are spread out via media. There were many uprisings among people who were affected by th fake news and robberies and even murders. That is another prove that nowadays media totally affects people’s minds and people rely on data not on facts and evidences. Remember the fake news about an Armageddon/the end of the world in 2012. Many people believed this doubtful information which had no enough proves. But, it is not a single case in history throughout the times. Conspiracy theories have taken a certain place in people’s minds. Bunch of people believe that Donald Trump’s election in 2016 was falsified, but nobody has provided sufficiently true information concerning this issue. Society is ready to believe in everything scandalous and unusual thing that somehow might have occurred in their everyday lives. “America losing its mind” and it’s the most appropriate term for such thing. Of course, vague elections and some of the allegedly true news. Nowadays, it represents itself a huge world problem and people must resist to it. Therefore, I think that the only way is to establish a census or standard which would control spreading of deluded news and any data that is not approved by many reasonable and reliable sources. It would be a right action from side of websites. However, this deal is not only about the Internet, but also newspapers, magazines, journals, radio, television, etc. To be honest, I have no idea how to stop spreading or reading fake news via such resources. The less people listen to politicians the less effect they undergo. Hence, my dear friends, stop, please stop trusting everything that is broadcasting into society and have your own opinion on everything because we live in the country of freedom.
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