According to the current president Donald J. Trump he is going to put an end to “Fake News”. Fake News is a problem in the United States because people in social only follow what they like to believe in with policies and other news. Some of the reports the write this “Fake News” do it for celerity or quick money. Some people the “Fake New” just incite like the man who shot up the pizza place because of “Fake News”. “On Sunday afternoon, a 28-year-old man walked into a Washington, D.C. ping-pong bar and pizzeria. He was carrying an AR-15 assault rifle – hardly standard-issue hardware for a round of table tennis. He fired one or more shots, as people fled Comet Ping Pong, before surrendering to police officers. No one was injured.” (PBS)
“But here’s where problem lies with fake news and the human mind. Our brains have a finite capacity for processing information and for remembering, so our minds make value judgments about what to keep. Humor tips the scales in favor of being remembered and recalled, even when counterarguments are strong.” (PBS). The reason peoples can’t brain doesn’t tell it’s “Fake News” because our brain doesn’t understand sarcasm written. A recent assay showed that “Their attempts at a deception detector yielded a 63 percent success rate, which is better than the human ability to spot lies — 54 percent on average” (PBS).
“Harris started by crafting the headline: “BREAKING: ‘Tens of thousands’ of fraudulent Clinton votes found in Ohio warehouse,” according to The New York Times, which broke the story on Wednesday about what Harris had done” (Charlotte Observer). Harris is the reporter who wrote the “Fake News” about the ten of thousands of fraudulent Clinton vote founded in a warehouse in Ohio. Harris later on admitted that the reason he wrote the “Fake News” was because of financial gain. He was try to pay back some student debts.
“Bad information has always lived online. Before fake news, there were electronic message boards where people shared conspiracy theories and emails instructing you to FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!! Before the computer, there were anonymous pamphlets and chain letters sent through the mail.” (politifact). When people start solicitous about “Fake News” it becomes an issue people start believing it. “Fake News” is a exigent matter and we as people living in the United States is something we need to be perturb about so innocent people won’t get hurt like in the pizzeria shooting were a man thought a human trafficing was going on.
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