Threats because of Fake News

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cnn-murder-plot-man-arrested-kill-staff-latest-a8173386.html

Our President, Donald Trump, could probably coin the term Fake News. It is a word he uses quite heavily and frequently. One site he claims to be Fake News is CNN. Could this be the reason of the recent threats by a Michigan man who threatened to come and shoot CNN staff dead? Multiple calls were made by this man “Fake news. I’m coming to gun you all down.” He told an operator of CNN. Imagine the fear of the staff after this man called and said, "I am coming to Georgia right now to go to the CNN headquarters to f---ing gun every single last one of you." The call was traced, and he was later arrested. Crazy people like this exist in the world and that is why it is important to watch what we say, you never know he may be keenly listening.

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Russia and NATO Scare

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/bbc-forced-deny-fake-news-nuclear-war-viral-video-russia-nato-a8313896.html

It is very hard to tell real from fake these days. It is becoming increasingly harder with the skills people have to make and manipulate pictures or videos to make them seem real. This is what happened when a video spread about a nuclear war outbreak between Russia and NATO. The video seemed to show a man in the BBC studio reporting about a missile attack, it even showed a clip of the Queen being evacuated. “We’d like to make absolutely clear that it’s a fake and does not come from the BBC.” BBC stated. Stories like these are not new but are still a very scary thing. How can we tell what is fake from the truth nowadays?

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The Global Issue of Fake News

http://www.atimes.com/article/students-new-target-audience-fake-news/

Fake news is known to be an epidemic across this country, but the reality is, it’s a huge issue globally. From all age groups people are known to believe what they see without looking at the facts or the whole story. An example of this is when a video spread across India of a woman getting molested by a man. This hit hard for a lot of teenagers where it was widely spread and even discussed in school where a lot of debates emerged about this said incident. Later, the full video was released to show that the man was simply saving the woman from a riot. “The students had trouble dealing with the fact they had believed fake news.” Asia Times reports. No one wants to fall victim of the popular fake news trend, but sadly it is very common for that to happen especially when it comes to young, impressionable kids. I feel it is our duty to set a new standard of News and stop the pattern. We must all come together to share the truth and teach younger generations to do so as well.

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Starbucks Newest Scandal

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/19/fake-coupons-emerge-after-starbucks-incident-in-philly.html

It is a sensitive time in America where racial tension seems to be on the rise. After an incident in a Philadelphia Starbucks that ended in a wrongful arrest of two black men, rage spread across the nation. As a barista that works at this Starbucks, we were informed on what do incase of a riot that could possibly happen at our store. We were told about what to do incase of angry customers that come in and so on as well. Starbucks is going above and beyond to fix the terrible mistake that one store manager did, however, despite the news going around, there is no coupon for one free drink for people of color. “According to the Daily News, one of the coupons contains instructions for the barista to punch in the code, ‘1488,’ a set of numbers associated with white supremacist groups.” Informed Fox News. This fake coupon that has been spreading also includes a QR code that when scanned will pull up the “N-word.” So be aware when you stumble across this, no Starbucks will accept it and the company is in no way associated with such coupon.

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How Fake News Has Plagued 2017

 FAKE NEWS: TWITTER EDITION




This article talks about how fake news has taken over and become a house hold term in our country this past year. So many of the devastating things that have happened this year such as, school shootings, natural disasters etc have been trivialized. For example, once news of the terror attack on London many "news outlets" and people took to social media to post about it. Many tweets were being posted making it look like it was the people who were involved in the attack but that wasn't the case at all. The article mentions "Another tweet, shared more than 35,000 times, was from a user claiming his brother and sister were missing. But the image shared was taken before the attack and a Twitter user said it was actually a photo of a younger version of himself." This explains just how deceitful some people are and how far they are willing to go for fifteen minutes of fame.


 






 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-42487425

During 2017 President Trump raved on Twitter about “fake news” and the sources that circulate these stories. He tweeted about his upcoming Fake News Awards in which he would rank the news sources that spread the “fake news”. “Subjects [which] will cover Dishonesty & Bad Reporting in various categories from the Fake News Media.” Many popular news sites such as; CNN, The Washington Post, News Week, ABC News, and the New York Times were all listed along with their “fake news” articles that got them a spot on the list. The Fake News Awards come after President Trump had a tough year fighting all of the biased media, false claims, accusatory statements, and negative news that swarms the media. Once all the fake news sources/stories had been listed, there was a list of all the accomplishments that President Trump has made since becoming POTUS.

An old news report about Floyd Mayweather's 2010 arrest appeared with a misleading title in July 2017.    The report stated that Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather's fight had been called off due to Mayweather's arrest. The fake news report featured video of Mayweather walking into a courtroom that was recirculating from his prior arrest in 2010. The video was published to the web site Top Buzz under the title “McGregor vs Mayweather FIGHT IS OFF! Mayweather ARRESTED!! LIVE FOOTAGE”. The report did show a real video, however it was used in the wrong place due to its absence of relevance to the 2017 McGregor vs Mayweather fight.