Obama is worried about fake news on social media – and we should be too
The article discusses how Obama states that we live "In an age where there’s so much active misinformation, and it’s packaged very well...", introducing influences such as Facebook, television, or in other words, the media to have been the embodiment of misinformation by presenting rumours and wrong information to people. Simply, he states that “everything is true and nothing is true” as a way of saying that information on the Internet is hard to distinct between genuine and true, against lies and false.
The fact that a significant figure such as Barack Obama has commented and shed light into this topic, surely the outcome will be that audiences will now be more skeptic, but as a result may also damage their reliance and trust as a whole in the sense that news institutions will now feel less confident in the information they present.
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