Information online is easy to post, instant to view and can be shared quickly to a wide audience. While this can seem like a great advantage, there are also dangers that arise with the shift to online platforms. Fake news is one of the biggest dangers to social media and how we receive our information. Eric Tucker, posted a picture of several buses, stating that on the bus were paid protesters being bused to demonstrations against President-elect Donald J. Trump fueled a nationwide conspiracy theory. Tucker's post was shared at least 16,000 times on Twitter and more than 350,000 times on Facebook. The problem with this was, Tucker didn't know who was on the bus.  He stated “I’m also a very busy businessman and I don’t have time to fact-check everything that I put out there, especially when I don’t think it’s going out there for wide consumption.” This is a prime example of how fast false information gets spread because people are reluctant to look into facts before sharing a story.

Fake News

                               FAKE NEWS 

Fake News has become something that is so common amongst our society today. It is so common for people to get news and information misinterpreted and misconstrued because of one source or another. With our current political situation, it is not uncommon for there to be many different versions of the same story swirling around across social media. However, it is mentioned in an article by the New York Times that "Sure, surveys abound, asking people what they remember reading. But these are only as precise as the respondents' shifty recollections and subject to a malleable definition of "fake". The term fake news itself has evolved into an all-purpose smear used by politicians and the president to deride journalism that they don't like". It just so happens that whenever something is put out in the media and it is ruining someone's appearance they consider it fake news so that people will disregard it and their image will not be tarnished.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/health/fake-news-conservative-liberal.html