Thanks to the rise of the social media, we finally have a better way to disseminate helpful information, no matter where your friends and family are located. In just one click or tap, you can share news articles online that you believe are important for the public to know about. Unfortunately, due to the capability of the social media to make any news go viral, some people with selfish interest take advantage of this by creating fabricating information then passing them off as real news.
At this point in time, you may already be aware that fake news have already plagued the online realm. While you might have read a bunch of fake news related to political propagandas, there are those type of fake news that are made solely to attract attention. Be it about science, health, or technology, fake news can victimize anyone and feed the public with wrong info, which can be harmful when a person accepts this as the truth.
Identifying Which Is Legit News And Which Is Fake And ‘Propagandist’
A prime characteristic of fake news is that every info listed in it cannot be traced back to a legitimate source. This is because the details provided by fake news are nothing but mere fabrications of the writer. Thus, the first thing you can do is to verify the information in an article and see if there are other articles online that would confirm the claims of a suspected fake news write-up.
The sad reality is that the spread of fake news that has malicious intentions to mislead the general public is pretty hard to stop at this point, given that every household is connected to the social media. This is the reason why President Donald Trump is said to have won the nation in the 2016 presidential elections, and the odds are in favor of Trump’s social media campaign becoming successful once again in the 2020 polls.
If you notice that a certain news website has way too many pop-up ads that you almost cannot handle, it is likely that the news articles in there are fake. Because fake news peddlers are only after a wider reach or bigger audience, they would take advantage of this and fill their articles with a load of advertistments, so that every click made by an unfortunate site visitor would equate to a handful of dollars. This is like receiving a bunch of prank calls in a single minute which are not even funny to begin with.