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
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