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Essay on effects of fake news on social media in 150 words in english

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Answered by swashiniraja50
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Fake news or junk news is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate disinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media.[1][2] The term is also at times used to cast doubt upon legitimate news from an opposing political standpoint, a tactic known as the lying press.[3][4] The false information is often caused by reporters paying sources for stories, an unethical practice called checkbook journalism. The news is then often reverberated as misinformation in social media, but occasionally finds its way to the mainstream media as well.[5]

Fake news is written and published usually with the intent to mislead in order to damage an agency, entity, or person, and/or gain financially or politically,[6][7][8] often using sensationalist, dishonest, or outright fabricated headlines to increase readership. Similarly, clickbait stories and headlines earn advertising revenue from this activity.[6]

The relevance of fake news has increased in post-truth politics. For media outlets, the ability to attract viewers to their websites is necessary to generate online advertising revenue. If publishing a story with false content attracts users, this benefits advertisers and improves ratings. Easy access to online advertisement revenue, increased political polarization, and the popularity of social media, primarily the Facebook News Feed,[1] have all been implicated in the spread of fake news,[6][9] which competes with legitimate news stories. Hostile government actors have also been implicated in generating and propagating fake news, particularly during elections.[10]

Fake news undermines serious media coverage and makes it more difficult for journalists to cover significant news stories.[11] An analysis by BuzzFeed found that the top 20 fake news stories about the 2016 U.S. presidential election received more engagement on Facebook than the top 20 election stories from 19 major media outlets.[12] Anonymously-hosted fake news websites[1] lacking known publishers have also been criticized, because they make it difficult to prosecute sources of fake news for libel.[13]

During and after his presidential campaign and election, Donald Trump popularized the term "fake news" when he used it to describe the negative press coverage of himself.[14][15] In part as a result of Trump's use of the term, the term has come under increasing criticism, and in October 2018 the British government decided that it will no longer use the term because it is "a poorly-defined and misleading term that conflates a variety of false information, from genuine error through to foreign interference in democratic processes."

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Answered by Banjeet1141
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News is something that provides the results of fresh sources, facts, and data, but it may also mislead by disseminating fake news on social media. Everyone in this world is obsessed with newspapers. Some news editors can take advantage of this by editing news to produce an intense outcome on television, radio, and social media. As a result, to be recognized as false news on social media, it is closely tied to hoaxing and deceiving every third person on the planet.

        The impact of fake news and disinformation on social media is often bad, and it can occasionally irritate regular people, authorities, or the government. Fake news has the potential to mislead hospitals of educational institutions. Fake news can incite animosity against religion, politics, celebrities, or government organizations, leading to riots. It is difficult in today's society since one piece of fake news may affect the entire impact of a story and change a person's viewpoint depending on the scenario. It is propaganda created by certain news editors in order to gain money by disseminating it.

             It may produce a lot of income for the media organization since they require news as soon as possible and then leaking it on social networks like Facebook and Twitter with thousands of likes or tweets can bring them a lot of money. We use Whatsapp every day and view text messages, but occasionally there are news stories with intriguing details that we forward to friends or groups, and this way it reaches one thousand cellphones in one hour. Local communities can play a critical role in spreading it. People in rural India are more conscious of what is going on around the globe, especially if they see anything unusual in the news.

                Then they can only promote hate or riot because the official authorities largely ignore them. Fake news has become a danger to journalism and the media because it forces them to confront any circumstance that is not correct and is a fraud. It may take much effort to delete such news that has no source or whose editor is not confirmed. Nowadays, the entire world is fed up with fake news, which acts like a nuclear bomb, exploding with such force that it destroys everything nearby or kilometres away and can harm individuals. We must confront and resolve every crisis, but this is not always possible without the assistance of others.

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