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Fake News and Misinformation - America Headed Down A Path of Darkness - Via Media Control

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Channel: Mike Martins · 2017 · News & Politics

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My Opinion: Lets face it ! There is a Lot of ways the Media can Be twisted and tamed to heard the masses and even under the weirdest and fakest false pretences and divide the Nation in many sects-   If there inset a Media Revolution by 2020 America and Finished ! 

Wikipedia Definition 
Fake news is false or misleading information presented as news. Fake news often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue.[1][2] Although false news has always been spread throughout history, the term "fake news" was first used in the 1890s when sensational reports in newspapers were common.[3][4] However, the term does not have a fixed definition, and has been applied more broadly to include any type of false information, including unintentional and unconscious mechanisms, and also by high-profile individuals to apply to any news unfavourable to their personal perspectives. Furthermore, disinformation is an insidious type that involves spreading false information with harmful intent, and is sometimes generated and propagated by hostile foreign actors, particularly during elections. In some definitions, fake news includes satirical articles misinterpreted as genuine, and articles that employ sensationalist or clickbait headlines that are not supported in the text.[1] Because of this diversity of types of false news, researchers are beginning to favour information disorder as a more neutral and informative term.

The prevalence of fake news has increased recently with the rise of social media, especially the Facebook News Feed, and this misinformation has gradually seeped into the mainstream media. Several factors have been implicated in the spread of fake news, such as political polarization, post-truth politics, motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, and social media algorithms.

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has claimed that fake news is one of the most significant new disturbing trends that must be resolved, otherwise the internet cannot truly serve and benefit humanity.

Fake news can reduce the impact of real news by competing with it. For example, a BuzzFeed analysis found that the top fake news stories about the 2016 U.S. presidential election received more engagement on Facebook than top stories from major media outlets. It also particularly has the potential to undermine trust in serious media coverage. The term has at times been used to cast doubt upon credible news, and former U.S. president Donald Trump has been credited with popularizing the term by using it to describe any negative press coverage of himself. It has been increasingly criticized, due in part to Trump's misuse, with the British government deciding to avoid the term, as it is "poorly-defined" and "conflates a variety of false information, from genuine error through to foreign interference".

Multiple strategies for fighting fake news are currently being actively researched, and need to be tailored to individual types of fake news. Effective self-regulation and legally-enforced regulation of social media (such as Facebook) and web search engines (such as Google) are needed. Access to the owners of anonymous websites is needed so as to prosecute sources of fake news for libel. The information space needs to be flooded with accurate news to displace fake news. Individuals need to actively confront false narratives when spotted, as well as take care when sharing information via social media. However, reason, the scientific method, fact-checking and critical thinking skills alone are insufficient to counter the broad scope of fake news. Overlooked is the power of confirmation bias, motivated reasoning and other cognitive biases that can seriously distort mental 'immunity' (public resilience to misinformation, and the development of psychological 'herd immunity'), particularly in dysfunctional and polarised societies. The problem is that new misinformation – and its darker cousin, intentional disinformation – keep popping up all the time. Therefore, it is much better timewise to inoculate the population against misinformation, rather than to continually having to debunk each new claim later. Inoculation theory shows promise in designing techniques to make individuals resistant to the lure of fake news, in the same way that a vaccine protects against infectious diseases.

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