I will be taking up and discussing the topic of “ Fake news”. Fake News is any information that does not meet the term of the definition of news. As talking about what is news in the first weeks of Blake Lambert’s class news is “Received or noteworthy information, especially about new or recent events. Unknown or undiscovered facts or information”.
In today’s world, a lot of people, or even everyone use social media whether it's Facebook, Instagram, etc. Everyone consumes news in a different way than other people. We use all the platforms to access information but how do we know it’s the true content? That’s why I will discuss how people consume news that they think is serious news, but they are fake.
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According to the most recent study, nearly 80 percent of Canadians get their news online, and nearly 50 percent get news on social media, a platform that greatly contributed to the spread of misinformation in the United States. Taken together, the conditions are ripe for fake news to take off in Canada. ( 1 )
People truly do not know whether what they are reading or listening to is real news or not. Fake news can be unreliable information that is published for society to see going as far as the organizations making money off of fake news being promoted and viewed by users. There are different kinds of fake news that a person should be careful of. There are fake news that has to do with the president let’s say or other politicians or political figures. Some of the events may not matter to others whether it's fake or not, but the events or information about political stuff in the country can make society worry. The problems that happen with “ fake news” is that it leads to wrong information getting out about leaders who could have control over the nation. It’s up to us to believe what is right and what is not.
Fake news is making money for some people who publish events that aren’t trustworthy just because of how society is attracted by certain websites or stories online.
How much money can you bring in by making stuff up and putting it on the Internet? “I make like $10,000 a month from AdSense,” Paul Horner, a prolific, Facebook-focused fake-news writer told us this week. And among a growing group of Macedonian teenagers who see fake-news sites as a way to make easy money from American gullibility, the most successful can make about $5,000 a month, BuzzFeed reported. (2) The money comes from ads, provided by the self-service ad technology of companies like Google and Facebook.
Carroll estimated that a fake news share from within the Trump campaign could earn the lucky hoaxer as much as $10,000 in extra revenue, provided they have taken full advantage of the ad services available to them. That’s a “huge economic incentive to create stories that they want to distribute.”(2 a)
“Google has more of an incentive to make information reliable,” Carroll noted. (2b)
I went on Google and saw a link to an article and the red flag said false (fact-checked by hoax-alert.leadstories.com) it was published that “FAKE NEWS: Belgian Singer Stromae NOT DEAD in Paris Road Accident” (2018 October) Did Belgian singer Stromae die in a road accident in Paris today, aged only 33? No, that's not true: a death hoax about the singer was launched by a website that is linked to several other celebrity death hoaxes. It is not real. (3)
So to make some points humans are used to everything they hear or the things that they are told, to be reliable information because they appear real. With the influence of social media load on society, it can be hard to depict real news. People just see an article on Facebook for example and immediately share it without knowing whether it is true or not so that is how “fake news” could spread.
Fake news is a bigger problem in today’s world than it has ever been because of how much we use our mobile devices, and social media is always within our “hand” reach.
To conclude, a reader should not be automatically impacted by what they first read or see. Some things that were not a problem back then, are problems right now. Information is so easily accessed just by opening social media that it has caused “fake news” to appear and become a huge concern. What will help to eliminate this problem is to be cautious of what you read and what you consider to share with your friends, family, etc.
Cited works
- https://theconversation.com/the-real-consequences-of-fake-news-81179 “ Canadians polarized too” The real consequences of fake news July 26, 2017 Author Dominik Stecula PhD candidate in political science
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/18/this-is-how-the-internets-fake-news-writers-make-money/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.acfdb1c414ac “ This is how Facebook’s fake-news writers make money” Author Abby Ohleiser November 18, 2016
- https://hoax-alert.leadstories.com/3469844-fake-news-accident-grave-a-paris---le-celebre-chanteur-stromae-est-decede-aujourdhui-a-lage-de-33-an.html By Maarten Schenk 14 October, 2018
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