Fake News And Social Media

  Fake News And Social Media  CAN PEOPLE TRUST AND DEPEND ON SOCIAL MEDIA AS A NEWS SOURCE? Though Social media has become almost an inevitable part of our society now, we can’t always depend on it. The spreading of misinformation in social media is not new. Every day we read bunches of things online on social media, which may happen to be true, often is not. This false or misinformation leads to fake news i.e. consisted of fabricated stories, without any verifiable facts, sources, or quotes. Those stories are forged to influence reader’s own opinions or to deceive them. The question of fake news refers to the point of how to think about the nature of real news. In the last few years, numbers of fake news stories have increased via social media platforms like What’s App, Facebook, YouTube, etc., because they are shared online faster than we can ever imagine. There have been varied uses of the term Fake news in different reporting of news. During the second half of 2016, the te...