NDM News: Globalisation and fake news
Fake news: blog tasks
The Guardian & the global problem of fake new
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2.) As insinuated in the article, the main goal and similarity shared between countries is their aim to "curve" certain events, politics, and general news, and instead perhaps try to influence by changing or reinforcing certain ideas to the audience by creating fake news. Also noted, revenue and monetary value is disregarded when they make fake news too, and shows the priority of the messages being created.
3.) I think regardless of the freedom of speech, access to the Internet alone opens roots to fake news, where anyone can be the consumer and anyone can be the supplier of information - there is simply no passiveness in the modern digital age anymore. With this being said, social apps such as Facebook and Twitter catalyze this spreading of information, where the audience can be easily manipulated due to the fact that users can spread information anywhere and at anytime, and at any given topic.
New York Times and the creation of fake news
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2.) Successful stories for Beqa Latsabidze, 22, from Georgia landed a successful fake stories, one about Trump releasing information that could 'destroy Obama'.
3.) Without a doubt, Google and Facebook, particularly Facebook as people use it specifically to consume news regardless of its authenticity, will be consumed and will be believed, and this is dangerous especially if it is for example, spreads propaganda and spreads false information that affects people greatly on a pandemic level. Google on the other hand is a less passive search for information, where the user has to seek information on their own will about a particular subject, as opposed to Facebook as mentioned earlier, where people are being 'fed' news. So in result, Facebook is definitely more blamed than Google, however also cannot be entirely blamed as their users have in a sense "owned" the app they're using themselves, turning the dynamics of what the app seemed like before to what they've made of it now.
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