Quote from: Dunamisx on Today at 08:39:16 AM

Impact of Fake News in our Society Today

Fake news is what we all know and have different interpretation for, but as according to what I know, I see it as misinformation to the general public or an individual for a personal interest, which may cause a serious implications to the society and the world at large, it is important that we should know how those the participates in sharing fake news and being intentional about it, not putting into consideration then negative effects it may cause everyone at the receiving end.

I was informed on the social media this morning that the popular action movie actor Chackie Chan is dead, then the next I could do was to engaged other social media platforms to confirm this, just to later discover it was all fake news, this then brought me to writing to create this thread on how the impact is fake news has been affecting our society today, but before going further, hear the wiki definition of fake news.

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Fake news or information disorder is false or misleading information (misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, and hoaxes) claiming the aesthetics and legitimacy of news.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news

Here is more explanation on what fake news is and how we can use a chart to express the meaning, categories and the effects of fake news in our society today and the world at large.

https://share.google/TDUoiIeSNtLp50ZFj

https://share.google/52Js7IszxUR1gZcye

Undermining news by putting everything under same umbrella of "news" has been tool for fascists since the start. And i am afraid that it will become worse, because AI can produce more fake news faster then people can debunk them. One problem with this is that this seems to make people believe less even at traditional media, because they have been sold the idea that every media is fake, so they can't determine what's real and what's not.

In my country, media literacy and spotting misinformation is an essential part of civics education in my country, and i kinda wish that other countries would adapt that in their school system.