Spotting Fake News
Social media is now the easier access of all information. The use of social media is honestly very successful but on the other side of this easier access of informations in social media, people nowadays are no longer using it for only good intentions without knowing their limitations on spreading FAKE NEWS. Spreading fake news in social media is a serious issue that needs to be stop. Why? Because most of the people nowadays are now getting informations via use of social media.
We all know that one information is now very accessible to others, and it is already difficult to take that wrong information back as it is already spreaded into a wide range of people. The users of social media should be also aware of those things such as knowing whether it is a fact or fake information and also they should know sites or sources that is reliable.
What is a Fact?
A fact is a statement that is true or can be proven with evidence. The usual test for a statement of fact is verifiability — that is, whether it can be demonstrated to correspond to experience. Standard reference works are often used to check facts. Scientific facts are verified by repeatable careful observation or measurement (by experiments or other means).
How to tell if it is a fact or fake?
1. When the headline is sensationalized. If the headline sounds like it's being yelled out loud by a strange person running in the street, Morong said, stay skeptical.
2. Mimicking. There are websites that look completely legitimate because they imitate the layout, the logo, and even the url of actual news outfits. Take the extra step to check the official website. For GMA News, it's gmanetwork.com/news.
Remember that logos can be edited into anything, so verify the information from official sources!
3. Lack of by-line. Established news organizations publish articles that include a by-line or the name of the journalist who wrote the article. This is done for accountability — something that propagators of fake news don't want to face, which is why they might omit their names from articles or use a pseudonym.
- Joseph Morong
Now let’s know what is a fake news?
Fake news is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media. Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to damage an agency, entity, or person, and/or gain financially or politically, often with sensationalist, exaggerated, or patently false headlines that grab attention. Intentionally misleading and deceptive fake news is different from obvious satire or parody which is intended to humor rather than mislead its audience. Fake news often employs eye-catching headlines or entirely fabricated news stories to increase readership, online sharing and Internet click revenue. In the latter case, it is similar to sensational online "clickbait" headlines and relies on advertising revenue generated from this activity, regardless of the veracity of the published stories. Fake news also undermines serious media coverage and makes it more difficult for journalists to cover significant news stories.
Easy access to online advertisement revenue, increased political polarization, and the popularity of social media, primarily the Facebook News Feed, have all been implicated in the spread of fake news, which have come to provide competition for legitimate news stories. Hostile government actors have also been implicated in generating and propagating fake news, particularly during elections. An analysis by Buzzfeed found that the top 20 fake news stories about the 2016 U.S. presidential election received more engagement on Facebook than the top 20 news stories on the election from 19 major media outlets.
Anonymously-hosted fake news websites lacking known publishers have also been credited, because they make it difficult to prosecute sources of fake news for libel. The relevance of fake news has increased in post-truth politics.
With the expansion of technology, the need for views and ratings has been increasingly higher. For media outlets, the ability to attract viewers to their websites is a necessity in order to please advertisers that pay for advertising on their websites. If publishing a story with false content will produce a big caption and attract viewers it may be worthy producing in order to benefit advertisers and ratings.
Examples of fake news:
Social media is now the easier access of all information. The use of social media is honestly very successful but on the other side of this easier access of informations in social media, people nowadays are no longer using it for only good intentions without knowing their limitations on spreading FAKE NEWS. Spreading fake news in social media is a serious issue that needs to be stop. Why? Because most of the people nowadays are now getting informations via use of social media.
We all know that one information is now very accessible to others, and it is already difficult to take that wrong information back as it is already spreaded into a wide range of people. The users of social media should be also aware of those things such as knowing whether it is a fact or fake information and also they should know sites or sources that is reliable.
What is a Fact?
A fact is a statement that is true or can be proven with evidence. The usual test for a statement of fact is verifiability — that is, whether it can be demonstrated to correspond to experience. Standard reference works are often used to check facts. Scientific facts are verified by repeatable careful observation or measurement (by experiments or other means).
How to tell if it is a fact or fake?
1. When the headline is sensationalized. If the headline sounds like it's being yelled out loud by a strange person running in the street, Morong said, stay skeptical.
2. Mimicking. There are websites that look completely legitimate because they imitate the layout, the logo, and even the url of actual news outfits. Take the extra step to check the official website. For GMA News, it's gmanetwork.com/news.
Remember that logos can be edited into anything, so verify the information from official sources!
3. Lack of by-line. Established news organizations publish articles that include a by-line or the name of the journalist who wrote the article. This is done for accountability — something that propagators of fake news don't want to face, which is why they might omit their names from articles or use a pseudonym.
- Joseph Morong
Now let’s know what is a fake news?
Fake news is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media. Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to damage an agency, entity, or person, and/or gain financially or politically, often with sensationalist, exaggerated, or patently false headlines that grab attention. Intentionally misleading and deceptive fake news is different from obvious satire or parody which is intended to humor rather than mislead its audience. Fake news often employs eye-catching headlines or entirely fabricated news stories to increase readership, online sharing and Internet click revenue. In the latter case, it is similar to sensational online "clickbait" headlines and relies on advertising revenue generated from this activity, regardless of the veracity of the published stories. Fake news also undermines serious media coverage and makes it more difficult for journalists to cover significant news stories.
Easy access to online advertisement revenue, increased political polarization, and the popularity of social media, primarily the Facebook News Feed, have all been implicated in the spread of fake news, which have come to provide competition for legitimate news stories. Hostile government actors have also been implicated in generating and propagating fake news, particularly during elections. An analysis by Buzzfeed found that the top 20 fake news stories about the 2016 U.S. presidential election received more engagement on Facebook than the top 20 news stories on the election from 19 major media outlets.
Anonymously-hosted fake news websites lacking known publishers have also been credited, because they make it difficult to prosecute sources of fake news for libel. The relevance of fake news has increased in post-truth politics.
With the expansion of technology, the need for views and ratings has been increasingly higher. For media outlets, the ability to attract viewers to their websites is a necessity in order to please advertisers that pay for advertising on their websites. If publishing a story with false content will produce a big caption and attract viewers it may be worthy producing in order to benefit advertisers and ratings.
Examples of fake news: