A Losing Battle in the War on Plastics

 

In David Uberti’s article “The Real History of Fake News,” he takes the stance that fake news has existed since the press became commercially sensationalized. When needing to reach a broader audience, early newspapers attempted to “charm” audiences and made fact and truth indiscernible. It became a corrupted art to increase newspaper sales. In the modern age with technology and social media, corporations count their “clicks'' and this is how they are influenced. Despite the fact that making money is any corporation's goal, they need to be held accountable for fake news. People should boycott news outlets and demand answers on why they are spreading false information because social media will continue to grow.

Fake news is bad because it misleads people into thinking that something is true, when it is not. News outlets should not be fictional and should provide audiences with information that they can then use to vote, formulate new opinions, or talk about within their communities. According to Statista.com’s “Fake News-Statistics & Facts” and “Share of U.S. population who use social media 2008-2019,” about 70% of Americans use social media but only about 34% trust the news on it. When false information is spread, news outlets should be held accountable because it is dangerous. Social media is not going anywhere and its use has been on the incline. Hopefully that by holding them accountable and giving repercussions for fake news, news outlets will favor unbiased journalism.

 

With fake news spreading abroad, any information that is given to people can be hard to determine whether that information is true. The globalization of fake news has definitely created many problems throughout the world that have caused a struggle to determine the truth. While sorting through this information that is possibly true or false, journalists Eugene Kiely and Lori Robertson whom have devoted much of their life exposing fake news have given processes that can help with lessening the confusion of fake news. When reading the news, one should always consider the source from which the news came in order to reason the truth of the news. Also, researching the author who created the news is beneficial with helping one discern the credibility of the facts published. Investigating the sources that were used for any information will allow a reader to have a clearer view of information that could possibly be false. Since fake news has become more frequent, applying these methods are important to help readers digest the information more thoroughly in order to have better predictions about the news.