This website contains a perfect example of fake news. The article’s title is: McDonald’s french fries might hold a cure for baldness. Just by reading the title a person can tell that this is fake news. This is because the title is misleading. Everyone knows that McDonald's is a fast-food place which sells cheap food that is not dedicated to being healthy. Once I read the whole article I noticed that the author had very weak evidence. The author Brett Molina states near the end : “Although researchers note more studies are required, the findings could lead to a potential strategy for hair regeneration.” This sentence is self-explanatory. The researchers themselves lack experimental results to support the evidence that “one chemical” that is used in McDonald's french fries can actually cure baldness. I bet every fast food restaurant has this “one chemical” in some of their foods. Right in the beginning the author also mentions that eating McDonald's french fries do not hold a cure for baldness. This infers that the title was thought up to support McDonald's and to get more posts and likes. One main reason I concluded that this was fake news is because the author did not provide any credible health expert to support their claim 100 percent. In order to spot fake news: look for weak evidence that does not support the main claim, the length of the article (if the article is really short this indicates the author ran out of misleading evidence to support their claim), eye catching titles, and the amount of opinions the author forms. [1 image, 1 link, 1 quotation, 263 words].
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