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.
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_newsHere 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.
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https://share.google/52Js7IszxUR1gZcye Fake news has been on the increase especially on the social media space although when talking about fake news there are different ways it could be generated, sometimes it could be intensional and some unintentional.
Most of the times fake news on the social media space are with the intention of causing a traffic so this are done intentionally there calling the attention of people just so they can get a relevant post
Meanwhile some times post can be seen or understand in the way it was not intended thereby giving a wrong interpretation and understanding which also misleads the public or misinform the public