Depredation Of Fake News
The scariest place to visit in this technological revolution is the news forum. A lot of people have lost their lives dreadful of the misleading information and a few others have been impacted negatively from it. Apart from the sad news spread on the internet, bloggers had made it a habit to assume, put a misleading title, and lie just to trend. I have encountered quite a number of fake news stories, some came as a surprise to me while others made me wonder about the world we live in. I realized later that they were lies.
While growing up, we had no privilege of listening to news. I was staying with my grandma whose concern was watching movies and whatever happened in the country was not her concern. It was more Peaceful staying off News, but that changed when the course I studied in school demanded that we stay updated on what's happening in the country. Gradually I started to read News and to follow up on certain cases online. The disheartening thing about opening News feed on browsers is the loads of sad news that's thrown at one's face everyday and one wonders if 98% of what happens in our dear country is sad news.
I logged in one fateful day and was welcomed with the sad news of an actor's death. I have read a few days before that he was critically ill seeking help from organizations and the headline sounds believable. I was touched because he was a popular actor that had cracked me up so many times in his movies. Thoughts started to creep in my mind on how life is like a smoke that fades off after some time. I surfed the internet asking questions about his death but it seemed others had no information about it. I asked a few more questions, then I realized it was fake News, the actor was alive and was responding to treatment. It was unfortunate that people were already wishing the living to rest in peace (RIP).
I have come across many fake news with titles that are disheartening only to realize that it was a lie. The media has made a lot of people suffer from high blood pressure. To remain fully sane, one will need to stay off some news or filter some categories of posts.
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Dead fake news is rampant of lake, sometimes they do this on social media to blackmail others. That's really bad.
These hungry and malicious bloggers will do anything to sell their fake information. Some do it just to pull crowd to their blogs and to check out people's reactions. We need to be careful not to swallow all these news hook,line and sinker.
Most times they reintroduce forgotten events and open healed wounds
Bloggers are our number one problem 😂
Hahahaha
Seriously, they have a way of causing riot with their insignificant assumptions
Fake news can have serious consequences, as it can lead to misinformation and misinformation can lead to public panic and mistrust. In some cases, fake news has even been used as a weapon to manipulate public opinion.
That's true. Fake News has serious consequences on the people