Fake News spreads easy with A-list celebrities.

A celebrity’s power to influence their followers is astounding or in Kim Kardashian’s case, incompetent.  On January 26^th, 2012, Kim Kardashian tweeted “Did I just hear Cher has passed away? Is this real? OMG.”  The social media world went into a frenzy because Kardashian heard something, and without thinking or researching the facts, tweeted her new-found knowledge.  This new-found knowledge proved to be false. The first news of Cher’s death did ultimately stem from someone else other than Kim Kardashian but didn’t get much traction until she tweeted the same “fake news.” A celebrity like Kim Kardashian who has more than 58 million followers, hopefully will think next time before posting. [1 image, 1 quotation, 1 link, 111 words]