Thursday, April 5, 2018

IJnet, International Journalists’ Network posted “Fighting fake news: by the time it reaches your social media feed, it’s too late”, in order to give the example of fake news and explain possible consequences. The author describes the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer, Seth Rich, and shows how fake news spreads via the internet creating misunderstandings, conflicts, and problems. This story evokes the thoughts about fake information “as a weapon that hostile actors are using,” that is why the best way to avoid it is to monitor the process of fake news appearance and stop it with the help of some tools. The blog post presents the idea of “Fake News: the Game”, which aims to make people aware of some specific features of fake news, like headlines in order to pay their attention to the problems and teach to filter everything they search on the Internet.