FAKE NEWS

Fake news

There has been many problems recently with the problem with knowing whether or not the place you’re getting information is reliable or not. This was really evident with this last 2016 presidential election. The poll seemed to be influenced by a widespread belief in fake news among Trump supporters. Statistics showed that 73 % of Trump voters thought the billionaire financier George Soros paid protesters to disrupt the Republican candidate’s rallies- a fake news report later repeated by the president- elect himself. 

 

There have been may reported cases of fake news such as, when the Democratic senators wanted to impose sharia in Florida, who was a trump nominee for national security adviser. Flynn tweeted that the Democrats were involved with “sex crimes with Children. A false report also said that trump supports were chanting “we hate Muslims, we hate blacks, we want out great country back” this was reported as true on election night. 

I think that this problem with Fake news is really interesting because it shows how news can really effect a nation as a whole. Especially with the election as a whole and how during the whole election people were sure that Hilary was going to win where as in the end Trump won. Trump has been complaining about this fake news problem for a while because he either doesn’t want to get exposed for something that he’s done or that it’s starting to become a problem with his whole presidency. 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/18/what-is-fake-news-pizzagate

Update on the Kenyan Elections

 KENYA ELECTIONS

As the 2017 Kenyan Election are coming on up on August 8, Kenya needs to prepare themselves for what is to come. 

“We are going to win this election very early in the morning,” says Kennedy Oluoch, who plans to vote for Odinga. “We have enough numbers to beat the ruling party. If they try to rig it again, like they did in 2013, Kenya will burn.” Kenyan leaders are feeling very strongly about weather or not Uhuru Kenyatta will win another term in office. Judging based off of the last years there has been backlash of who has won, and people aren't afraid to use the method of violence again. 

The commission also says that, as in the 2007 violence, certain radio stations are openly propagating an ethnic agenda. “We are extremely worried about what is going on,” Francis Kaparo, the chairman of the commission, said at a press conference. “We are calling for peaceful campaigns ahead of the August elections.”

The problem with the Kenya election is that Kenya is polarized
by many ethnic lines. he ruling party is determined to win a second term, while the opposition says it sees signs of plans to rig the vote and vows not to accept a stolen election.