A story has gone viral claiming the “March for Our Lives’ permit application was made months before the Parkland shooting. The story was entirely based off of misunderstanding and initiates that the shooting was completely staged and the rally was submitted months before February 14th, the day the shooting took place. The story was based off of an email exchange between James Fetzer and Scott Earhardt. Earhardt, a police officer for Washington D.C. MPD, suggested the rally was permitted way before the school shooting that left 17 students dead. He stated in the email, “In reference to your inquiry concerning the March For Our Lives Demonstration, here in the District of Columbia on March 24, 2018. MPD received a permit application several months prior to the actual event, and there was several months of planning for this large event”. FellowshipoftheMinds took this information and ran with it before confirming if it was factual information. Earhardt later confirmed that he confused “March For Our Lives” and March For Life”. MPD confirmed that “March For Our Lives” Permit Application for the rally was received February 21, one week after the deadly school shooting.

Did Fake News On Facebook Help Elect Trump?

After the 2016 election, many feared that fake news articles spread on Facebook swayed the results of the election. It's a broad but reasonable leap to make: many purveyors of fake news aimed to help Trump win, and lo and behold, Trump won. Social media plays a bigger role in bringing people to fake news sites than it plays in bringing them to real news sites. More than one-quarter of voting-age adults visited a fake news website supporting either Clinton or Trump in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. Not sure if remembered any articles on facebook during the time of the election but if they were fake or real either way they got people to vote for Trump. Maybe they just target certain fackebook account. Weird how social media can control our minds.

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/601323233/6-facts-we-know-about-fake-news-in-the-2016-election

“Illegal immigrants cast votes”

Apparently this picture was front 2004 that was used saying that illegal immigrants cast votes in Pennsylvania race. A conservative website falsely reported that “trucks full of illegals” voted in the special House election in southwestern Pennsylvania that saw Democratic candidate Conor Lamb score a shocking victory over Republican Rick Saccone this week. Several of trucks full with illegal immigrants pulled up at the polls across Pennsylvania. Not shocking if someone did pay them to steal votes. You know things like this do happen, but they were probably tricked to vote here in the U.S. and probably were lied to that they could stay over in the U.S. if they voted.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4087758/fake-news-this-week-trucks-full-of-illegals-didnt-cast-votes-in-pennsylvania-race/

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.

Suge Knight Death Hoax

Not sure if I heard about this article, but apparently it supposed to been shared over 50,000 times on facebook. I guess didn’t too many people care enough. This didn’t even make my instagram timeline and I follow a lot of people and blogs. Apparently he suppose to died over food.  Over a chicken bone. Now this is funny for someone to create a fake article about not only someone death, but dying over a chicken bone.  Someone was in desperate need for a story line, sorry try again because it didn’t reach 50,000 people. LOL!! The article goes on to quote a prison guard named “Jack Napier” as saying Knight was found dead in his cell after a fight with another prisoner over food. Jack Napier is the real name of the Joker given in the 1989 Batman movie.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suge-knight-dead/

"Fake News" & Russia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/19/russia-fake-news-salisbury-poisoning-twitter-bots-uk

This story shows that Russia has created fake, thousands or maybe millions, of social media accounts to promote fake news, promoting different fake activities that were said to be going on in Russia.“Russia is using cyber as part of a wider effort to undermine the international system. This disinformation campaign is not just aimed at social media and the UK – it is intended to undermine the actual institutions and processes of the rules-based system, such as the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons. We must do all we can at every turn to challenge this", said by Theresa May. 

Nuclear War "Fake News"

Yesterday, on April 29, 2018 at 6:35 p.m., there was a video posted on the local media by someone supposedly from BBC News, saying that there was a nuclear bombing happening in the United Kingdom, caused by the Russians' naval ships launching missiles. Quite a few people did not agree that the news was real, because no other news channel was talking about it, except the mystery man from BBC News. More male than female viewers believed that it may be false, the females were easily convinced otherwise. “Over the last couple of days we have had people contact various BBC bureaux, mainly in Africa and Asia, as they had seen the video on WhatsApp and wanted to check if it was a real BBC report,” a spokesperson for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/19/bbc-denies-reporting-outbreak-nuclear-war/

Third Grader Schools Donald Trump About Fake News

"A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)", said by Donald Trump. A few days ago, a boy named Noah, explains to Donald Trump (via video recording), the real meaning of "fake news". Trump publishes a lot posts about people and "fake news", but his way of defining it is tremendously inaccurate. For being a third grader, Noah has a better way of explaining what fake news is. Therefore, Donald Trump should have gotten the memo, because a lot of people are besieging him about his defective posts.



http://time.com/5246643/jimmy-kimmel-trump-kid-fake-news/

Jordan Peele/Barack Obama: Fake News PSA

Fake news can be easily spread, even by editing the presidents videos. Jordan Peele shows a video, via internet blog, that he can easily pretend to be the president and spread out fake news. A lot of people are easily persuaded by the media, which can be kind of tricky to identify scams. Inadvertently, Buzzfeed is a company that is known for trying to disoblige fake news for views, most of their posts are erroneous. It is very defecating how technology companies can pretend to be someone else, fundamentally, to sabotage that person's well-being. The very advanced software that most companies are using is called "AL", a database that can identify or capture fake news. In Jordan Peele's video, he captured his self as Barack Obama using the AL software, which is awesome but an insult to the president. "The best shield against this sort of misinformation is instilling everyone with a little more media savvy", said by the author of the 

article.https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/4/17/17247334/ai-fake-news-video-barack-obama-jordan-peele-buzzfeed

General Kurt W. Stein & Fake News

A few days ago, Gen. Kurt Stein said something that was very cruel, "calling harassment "fake news"". The accusation caused Stein to get fired. Sadly, a few days before that meeting, he made some inappropriate remarks that caused him to be placed under investigation. So far, Stein has proved that he is no longer fit or worthy for his position as a General. "Leaders are responsible for establishing an environment conducive to mission accomplishment", said by LT. Col. Eric Dent. Not only was Stein fired but another General was fired, within 2 months of each other. Harassment should be took more seriously, no matter what the case is.


https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/04/16/general-accused-calling-harassment-allegations-fake-news-fired.html

Fake News: Donald Trump vs Russia

   

There has been rumors of Trump starting the "Fake News" phrase. Is it true? According to Sean Illing, the Russians started to use the slogan in the 1900s or 2000s era. Trump was just "borrowing" the phrase to win the 2016 election. In Trump, they found a particularly useful tool,  someone they could use to stoke America's internal divisions and subvert democracy (Illing). Basically, it was a win-win for both parties, Trump would become the POTUS and the Russians would gain more power in their country. It is kind of a twisted story, but a smart and well thought out plan. 

  https://www.vox.com/world/2018/4/5/17172754/russia-fake-news-trump-america-timothy-snyder

Facebook: Are They Really Spreading Fake News?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/5/17202886/facebook-fake-news-moderation-ai-challenges

"For Facebook, unwanted content can be anything from mild nudity to serious violence, but what’s proved to be most sensitive and damaging for the company is hoaxes and misinformation — especially when it has a political bent", said by the author, James Vincent. To identify "Fake News", Facebook created a system called "AL" to remove any fake content (mostly about politics and publicity stunts) that their users may post, or fake accounts. Coming to an agreement with Alex, how does "AL" delete content, but can't read? How does it determine what's fake and what's real? In article, it states that Facebook does a "Fake News Challenge" for AL. For example: the content about people eating "Tide Pods" as challenge was actually fake news. The content was very disturbing and outrageous, to a point that child viewers believed that the challenges were true. They started to do the challenges; some children and adults died and some got severely sick because Tide Pods aren't meant to be eaten. After it came to Facebook's attention, all content relating to the "Tide Pod" challenge was permanently removed.

“Fake news, real impact”, by Hugo Lindborg shows the research on fake news and its impact on the relations between people. As the majority of the population gets the information through the Internet and social media, the high risk to be misinformed exists. However, print media are also criticized as well because of the great amount of fake news. Considering the consequences of fake news, the article marks the most important problem referring to human relations and attitudes towards each other; “widening divisions between population groups and its effect on society.”However, the best way to fight against disinformation lies in “the combination of technology with human intellect” that means focusing on reliable sources and data.

“Fake News, Digital Sociology and Computerphile” is a blog post that shared a video with the discussion of the fake news question with Dr. Christian Karnerfrom, from the School of Sociology and Social Policy. The aim of the blog post is to highlight the importance of digital technologies that can enhance the research. Dr. Christian Karnerfrom, emphasizes the negative role of fake information and uses the example of digital technologies as the tool to improve the situation. However, such approach requires professional knowledge, that is why the sociologist focuses on “researchers discussing Computer Science principles and techniques.”

Twitter Account Put Out Fake News on YouTube Shooting

TheVerge.com states that "hackers were actively compromising a verified employee account to spread misinformation." The twitter account that was hacked was the account belonging to Vadim Lavrusik. Lavrusik tweeted out that he was safe at 2:36 PM and then about 20 minutes later, the hacker started tweeted from Lavrusik's account saying that he lost his friend in the shooting and to help him with which his friends commented on and said this...

Just like all other social media platforms, they are not as reliable as you think when it comes to news. Be careful with what you choose to believe.

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.

Facebook & Fake News

Facebook is a social media platform that obviously cannot be trusted... I mean its social media. People log on there to update family with their life events and to post pictures to show off their positive things in life. Recently, Facebook has been more of a news related social media. With the increase of users and posts, fake news is a given. So what are they going to do about all of the fake news being broadcasted? TheVerge.com says that "[Facebook has] hired more human moderators; it’s giving users more information in-site about news sources; and in a recent interview, Mark Zuckerberg suggested that the company might set up some sort of independent body to rule on what content is kosher."
I guess we will see where they go from here.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/5/17202886/facebook-fake-news-moderation-ai-challenges

How To Spot Fake News

Google and Facebook have finally announced that they are going to limit the sites that contain fake news. Not everything you see online is fake news, but Eugene Kiely and Lori Robertson claim that "Snopes.com has been exposing false viral claims since the mid 1990s, whether that’s fabricated messages, distortions containing bits of truth and everything in between." The steps to find spot fake news is the consider the source, read beyond the headline, check the author, check the date, check the biases, and consult the experts. Theres more fake news out there than real news, so be careful what you read.

https://www.factcheck.org/2016/11/how-to-spot-fake-news/

“Fake News” in the Media

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-43641675

A few days ago , on April 3, there was a mass shooting at YouTube headquarters, that left 4 people dead at the scene. During the shooting, of course there were devastated family members and friends, but there was also a hacker. A hacker that decides to hack a YouTube employee, Vadim Lavrusik, account during the shooting. Vadim posted a tweet on Twitter to keep his followers up-to-date on what was going on at the time, so I’m guessing that the person who hacked his page thought that it would be funny. The hacker posted misinformation, stating that Vadim lost a friend in the building and also immature slurs about Vadim’s name. 

On social media, people were also going around saying that Sam Hyde was the YouTube mass shooter, which was incorrect, and considered fake news. They have identified the shooter as a female, Nasim Aghdam, which was an employee, shot herself dead, after injuring 3 innocent victims. According to BBC News, “It is not the first time that social media platforms struggled with misinformation and fake images during breaking news events”.

True fabrication with the news

NBC nightly news  former news anchor Mr. Brian William is a prime examples of fake news, fake life, fake everything. He made his story sound believable.. ∵∵∵∵∵.😁  This dude blamed so many people of being apart of fake news, tweeting fake tweets but failed to realize his job was based on lies. Guess telling lies didn't stop from getting hired with another station. "Mr. Williams has been drawing 9.3 million viewers a night, and his position seemed unassailable. Even as the stature of the nightly newscast faded in the face of real-time digital news, Mr. Williams was one of the most trusted names in America and commanded the respect accorded predecessors like Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings." Ha.. the most trusted person, guess most of America loves fake news.

  

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nbc-news-suspends-brian-williams-for-6-months-397105731538https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/business/media/brian-williams-suspended-by-nbc-news-for-six-months.html
http://freebeacon.com/politics/brian-williams-criticizes-fake-news-losing-nbc-job-exaggerating-iraq-story/