In the article, ‘Obama Sinks Family Savings into Developing Presidential Tabletop Game’, an anonymous author discusses, as the title states, how the former president Barack Obama is sinking all of his financial gains into the development of a board game. This article can be found on a notorious fake news website called ‘The Onion’. The article achieves its purpose as a piece of fake news because it does not have a certified publisher to back up the article and the...
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In recent years, the number of fake news has grown extremely due to the internet and social media. However, fake news is a major problem which has serious implications. It is clear to see that not all news is trustworthy. Hence, this essay will analysis three different types of fake news which are aimed at different groups: the individual, the community, and the world as a whole. This essay will then focus on some of the factors and consequences of...
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In the recent years the journalism positioned is under fire because lots questions are raising about their quality of service, effect and credibility of the press and the scenario is completely change about journalism people don’t know which story is believable and which isn’t. In today’s world so many powerful political campaigns are spreading untruths - disinformation, mal-information and misinformation - which is often shared on social media to manipulate people. Disinformation: Information, which is deliberately false is to create...
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Today the term journalism is applied to popular publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, and to television news operations like Good Morning America and 60 Minutes. Journalists use their First Amendment right to tell the world a story. The political parties of the United States have sadly decreased news media in communications. Journalism has changed greatly since the colonial days. When newspapers were just delivered to one's door early in the morning with information around the...
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Abstract— Now a days sources of data from online social media may be consist of some data which are noisy and sparse. While handling of big data related social sensing media applications their challenges like misinformation on spread are data sparsity and fake news. The system is going to use of advanced algorithms to discover the dynamic truth information and frequently used information. Addressing misinformation spread in big data (e.g. WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram) is difficult task in the current era....
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The Coronavirus pandemic has led to an outbreak of false information with well-meaning individuals sharing false remedies and circulated news to friends and family on messaging platforms including Facebook and WhatsApp resulting in a rapid increase of false claims. Nearly half of UK adults online have been exposed to misleading or false information claims Ofcom has warned. Here is a list of false Covid-19 stories being shared. Holding your breath for ten seconds means you do not have Coronavirus This...
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For years scientists have debunked the claims of deniers, only for them to be rehashed again a few months later. Well no longer! With the help of Professor Mike Rogerson, senior lecturer in Earth System Science at the University of Hull, it’s time to explain things in simple black and white. Fake Claim 1: Climate change is part of a natural cycle We’ll start by giving you one. Yes, there are natural cycles. For instance deniers love pointing to 17th...
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The journalism industry is forever growing and changing as time passes, but one major development in the past five years which has altered the way journalism is performed is ‘Fake News’. Fake news has various impacts on the industry, both positive and negative. Fake news is ‘yellow journalism’ or propaganda that involves deliberate falsification of news that is spread via the media. The main suspects are normally reporters outsourcing for stories, which is evidently unethical. The boom of the digital...
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