Check The Credibility Of Fake Stories

Bhattarai 1 Bhattarai 3 Name: Jyoti Bhattarai Professor :Sherry Sharifian Govt 2305 2018-05-02

There are very simple tips to identifying sites on the internet that have fake stories. First and foremost, it is very important to check the credibility of the author and that of the publisher (HASKINS, 2017). One can simply Google their names and this can help tell one whether the author is credible or not, if they are not the news content is also not so likely to be credible. Further, it is important to check in with other reputable news sources for example BBC. If there is story making news, it is unlikely that major news media will miss it. Check if the story is being reported by these reputable sites and if not one has reasons to be suspicious

The BBC article provides information based on the evidence released by police and law enforcers in regard to the story and this makes the story credible. However fake news surrounding the story from https://inews.co.uk/opinion/top-ten-fake-misleading-news-stories-2017/ made baseless accusations and specifically on John McCain without mentioning any credible source for the information.

1 Although fake news is not new, it seems harder to distinguish and more accepted now. Why?

Fake news has become more acceptable since it very easily spreads through the internet and this popularity makes it seem like a real story and it has become hard to detect because it is surrounded by a lot of falsehood that makes it look very credible for example fake accounts and retweets. Fake news is a great threat to our democracy. This is because democracy allows individuals to make their own views and choices based on the information they have. Fake news leads to misinformation and therefore causing individuals to make decisions on the basis of wrong information. For example, propaganda about a good leader of the country can ruin their chances of getting into governance by painting the wrong picture about them and causing individuals to change their minds on the candidate based on

It is possible for an individual to read through stories and very easily disregard them due to doubt that the story could most probably be a fake story (Wall Street Journal, 2016). To ensure that individuals remain legitimately informed, it is important to make sure that we get our information from sources which have already been proven to be credible for example BBC and CNN.

Fake news is not a recent thing and it is not at all something that is as a result of election cycles. Lies on news headlines have been a thing forever. It has been used as a means of attracting an audience, a strategy of winning elections and as a way of easily earning money. It has just become so widespread recently since the internet and social media platform have offered a better, faster and more efficient platform to spread the fake news.

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