Category: Fake News

Fake news is not a new concept anymore, in fact, it has been around from time to time that news began to be widely circulated by print. Recently, it has gained superiority in modern media. The next presidential election will be held on November 2020 which means the political heat has intensified even more than…

In 2018, the French government enacted a law that allows judges to order the removal of fake news from social media platforms. The law, conceived by President Emmanuel Macron, was rejected twice by the Senate before being passed by the parliament on Tuesday. It is considered Western Europes first attempt to officially ban false material.…

Introduction Fake news is a much larger conversation than just assuming is just a few false stories. Some stories created as fake news even have a little bit of the truth in them but lack any contextualizing details. These stories may not even include any verifiable facts or trusted sources. Some of these stories may…

Abstract The essay discusses the pervasiveness of fake news on Facebook as well as the role of the Mocha Uson Blog. The author discussed how Facebook fake news is viewed in both the international and Philippine setting and the perceptions of netizens therewith. The essay also showed the biography and career of Mocha Uson, and…

Abstract Facebook has reached 2.38 billion active users around the globe and is one of the biggest social media websites people do rely on the information and news published on social media websites because the trend of reading news, listening radio, and watching TV became old and new generation completely adopted the new versions of…

Introduction Today, journalism is under attack. The tensions between the responsibilities of journalists and the prerogatives of the government when dealing with issues of national security are exacerbated by a body politic fortified by partisan certitude, by technology designed to ferret out confidential sources, and by nation-states with hidden agendas. One of the most significant…

Fake news; to what degree did it help Trump during the presidential elections? So much Fake News. Never been more voluminous or more inaccurate. But through it all, our country is doing great! (Vox, 2018). Donald Trump, often characterized as a populist (Rice-Oxley & Kalia, 2018), is speaking here concerning fake news[footnoteRef:1] in a tweet…

Wherever you go, whatever you do, there will always be an occurrence worthy to be shared. Due to the advancement of technology, information spreads so fast, but is that information that you have received actually happened? Is that information accurate? Does it come from reliable sources? These are some questions that we should consider asking…