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news, you would be surprised by how much fake stuff and inaccurate stuff gets
posted and spread. Remember the 2016 election in which Donald Trump won? Yes, a new study
is now saying that Trump might have won due to the fake news on social media. If indeed fake
news does exist, how do we stop believing in them and how do we stop them from getting
created or getting spread like viruses?
To begin, let's take a look at the existing situation and various existing examples of fake
news and inaccurate information. First, the study of the 2016 election finds out that back then,
the original Obama supporters all saw the fake news about Clinton on social media. The result
was that twelve
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Evan Bell
Toby Ebel
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March 26, 2018
The Impact of Fake News on Social Media
With social media taking over the world today we have been more connected than ever in history making it so easy to spread information around the world. Social media is a place for people to share their thoughts and ideas to the world and a place they are able to read the news. But with how easy it is to spread information around the world through social media it is also just as easy to spread false information the same way. The Internet isn’t for everybody and many people can be fooled very easily. So when the hot topic of discussion is the 2016 presidential election everyone has to share their
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The Disconcerting Nature of the Potential Impact of Fake News on the 2016 Presidential Election
‘Fake News' is a term used to describe the phenomena where websites intentionally publish articles with incorrect information aimed at misleading, deceiving, and tricking readers. Usually, through the enticement of eye-catching titles or sensationalized messages, these sites bait readers into clicking on their websites in order to generate advertisement revenue through internet traffic.
This essay explores that phenomenon and the unexpectedly substantial role it played in the 2016 Election of Donald Trump. Particularly noteworthy is an article in 2016, from a website claiming
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Winnie Lim
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10 January 2019
Proposed Project Title
Disinformation and Media Manipulation
Proposed Research Area
Journalism and Ethics
Proposed Topic
Media Theories and Media Manipulation
Proposed Research Question
How is fake news used as propaganda?
Rationale for choosing this topic
Most people in the world have been misinformed at some point in their lives. Whether it was due to communication noise such as semantic noise or psychological noise, or even intentionally by a source of information. This paper will see if people are aware that they are being manipulated intentionally or unintentionally, why and how they are being manipulated, and lastly why
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Fake news is all over our phones or any technology that can receive information, and you could be a victim. As Daniel Boorstin says, "These promises and activities only encourage people to have unrealistic expectations and to ignore facts." He is stating that we no longer acquire true facts; we would rather just read what is given to us and believe it is true. People shouldn't believe everything the media or the internet tells them because it gives only what we want and not what is true.
Every day, there are news articles being published and read by millions of people internationally. We tend to believe what is written in those articles is all facts. Well, they're false. Most
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local blogger using a fake email address. Prominent bloggers and editorials later published this story to be run on television finally. This resulted in massive marketing for the movie. This book gives its readers the idea that any publicity is good publicity.
The holiday started a lot of fake news and controversies by creating numerous counterfeit profiles, feeding fake scoops to blogs, and posting fake comments. He did so to garner fake traffic, which led to the articles being published all over, with people believing these scoops.
He shares one more instance of his friend's non-profit. He suggested his friend make a YouTube video showcasing his charity's work and later write an article
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, n.d.]. The main social media sites in 2018 according to DreamGlow are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Qzone, Weibo, Reddit, Pinterest, Ask.FM, Tumblr, Flickr, Google+, LinkedIn, VK, Odnoklassniki, and Meetup. [Kallas, 2018]. This essay will be formatted in a way where it leans on the stance that social media does make politics more democratic but there will be explorations into how social media makes politics less democratic. The main topics that will be discussed are: the rise of social media, digital democracy, fake news, transparency, and younger people being in touch with politics now and finally bringing it all together on how social media makes politics more democratic
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media users have a tendency of spreading false news stories, and conspiracy theories. Unlike traditional media platform, social media does not have a “fact-checking feature”. Meaning that news stories posted on social media are unedited, unchecked, which can cause them to become unreliable. Scholars have noted that lies spread faster than the truth. Unfortunately, many individuals believe anything they read online, even fake biased news stories. This has caused multiple “fake news” organizations to emerge. These organizations tend to have two major goals, to gain advertisement revenue, by having a story go viral, then having users click on a link on social media that takes them to the
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and colleges erroneously identify the account of a person. Not only colleges, companies and government do background check to their employees. In the Internet there are thousands of fake news, misinformation and scammers. In addition, hackers or criminals getting into person’s account of social media, and they use people personal information to borrow money from bank or create fake account under other people’s data. If the school admission or employee as a fact, it is difficult to change or erase that irresponsible mistake. “Colleges might erroneously identify the profile of person with the same name as a prospective student or even mistakes an impostor account as belonging to applicant
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— the idea that for all our outward differences, we’re all in this together.”
· Trump: “I’ve been competing with him [GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham] for some time. He’s going to crack that 1 percent barrier someday,” he said, referring to Graham’s poll numbers during the 2016 GOP primary season.
On Institutions
· Obama: “Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted. All of us, regardless of party, should be throwing ourselves into the task of rebuilding our democratic institutions.”
· Trump to one news organization: “You are fake news.”
And given the trend of the next president being a clear contrast to the last one, expect the nation’s 46th president to be someone much different than the 45th, Beschloss says.
“The next President elected, whether in 2020 or 2024, is likely to be someone very different from Trump.”
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"Alexander the Great was one of history's earliest propagandists," writes Matt Labash in a historical overview of military propaganda techniques through the ages, published in the conservative Weekly Standard. He lists examples, some humorous, of psychological ploys used by American, British and Nazi warriors.
The word “propaganda” comes from the Vatican. The phrase “congregatio de propaganda fide” (The congregation for the propagation of the faith) was used to support the catholic faith in response to the Protestant Reformation (Labash, 5). Propaganda is everywhere and has been around for a long time. Every newspaper, magazine, news channel, radio station, advertisement, or any other
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send him to jail he killed himself.Danglars was another person the Count decided he needed to punish. This was an easy revenge for the Count. Since Danglars had one weakness and that was money. Once he found out he had bought some Spanish bonds he sent out fake news that would make the bonds dive in value. After that when Danglars only had five million francs to pay off his debts and on that same day the Count took a loan from him for five million francs and left Danglars without any money and having to pay five million francs so he fled the country.I believe that the Count is just in what he did because all of the things he did everyone got what they deserved. Showing Mondego had committed treason and making Danglars go bankrupt. Along with having Morrell get all his stuff back and more. Now ever thing the Count did he had a reasonable explanation. This is why what the Count did was just and not unjust.
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;Fake News versus Real News as Sources of Political Information: The Daily Show and Postmodern Political Reality. Politicotainment: Televisions Take on the Real. Ed. Kristina Riegert. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.McChesney, Robert W. The Media/Democracy Paradox. Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times. Urbana: U. of Illinois P., 1999.Moyers, Bill. Journalism & Democracy. The Nation. May 2007. 8 April 2008. .Örnebring, Henrik and Anna Maria Jönsson. (2004) Tabloid Journalism and the Public Sphere: a Historical Perspective on Tabloid Journalism. Journalism Studies. (5)3. 283-295.
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-climate-change-is-fake-what-americans-google-about-climate-change-and-why-it-matters/. Accessed 28 November. 2017.
Tulandhar, Sugandha D., et al. “Interactions Effect of Market-Based and Command-And-Control Polices.” Energy Journal, 02 Oct. 2017, pp 61-88. EBSCOhost.
Yeo, Sophie. “The sharing economy helps fight climate change (but not as much as you think).” The Washington Post, 18 Sept. 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/18/the-sharing-economy-helps-fight-climate-change-but-not-as-much-as-you-think/?utm_term=.86b398a5dd5c. Accessed 27 Oct. 2017.
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prove/to turn your households rancor into pure love," he says when he contemplates whether or not to marry Romeo and Juliet (II. iv. 91-92). However he marries them with good reason, it causes much trouble for the lovers down the road. Friar's first unfortunate mistake was helping Juliet fake her death. "If rather than to marry Count Paris, /Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, / Then it is likely thou wilt undertake/ A thing like death to chide away this shame, / That cop'st with death himself to scape from it; / And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy" (IV. i. 71-76). Here Friar is offering Juliet a "remedy" to rid her from her commitment to marry Paris. Because of theWhite
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physical altercation with Edgar just as Gloucester enters the room. Edgar is branded as a traitor, and Gloucester's love and trust for Edmund increases. Edmonds Bent 2 fake wound appears as evidence that he is willing to defend his father. He says, In cunning, I must draw my sword upon you. / draw. Seem to defend yourself. Now quit, you will. - /yield! Come before my father (2. 1. 28-31). Edmond gains favors with others, just like Cornwall. Edgar dresses up as a bad beggar or " poor Tom" in an attempt to escape the search party. He says, " Poor Turlygod! Poor Tom! / That's something yet: Edgar I nothing am." (2. 3. 20-21). By this, he means that he is now disguised as a beggar and is no
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media. The extremely politically
engaged students reported viewing political content on social media just as much as everyone else,
however when asked why they are not influenced they provided compelling answers. A few of the
responses are as follows:
❖ “There is quite a lot of fake news, especially after the 2016 election. I always approach political
posts and articles on social media with as much caution as possible. I prefer to have the facts right
just in case I get caught up in some heated political debate later that day.” -- 2nd year, Male,
Business Major
❖ “I generally get my news from reputable news outlets like the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and
NPR. Also being a political science major
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by legal and illegal substances far worse than marijuana.
It is not safe to keep marijuana on just the streets. Marijuana is a drug that can be laced
with other drugs such as LSD, meth, cocaine, heroine, etc (Watkins). Unfortunately, it is
extremely hard to tell if your marijuana is laced by just looking at it. If not legalized, it will stay
on the street and anybody will be able to get their hands on it. Laced marijuana can get people
hooked very quickly to what they smoked and who they bought it from. Moreover, there is fake
weed that looks, smells, and smokes like regular marijuana except the high from it is far more
dangerous. However, if marijuana was legalized recreationally
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Shonda Walker
July 26, 2016
Usage of Excessive/ Deadly force by Law Enforcement is defined by the law as the force an officer has the rights use as such force only in reasonable necessary under the circumstances to make a lawful arrest. An unreasonable seizure occur s when a law enforcement officer uses excessive force in making a lawful arrest. Police officers have been making headlines in the news, media, and papers around our community due to the “excessive/deadly” force they decide to use when pulling persons over, performing arrest, or even checks. In the past month of July, there has been quite a few of murders by police that can be ruled by many as an wrongful use
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the thought. This confirmations the trouble of scattering false explanations once somebody has acknowledged a misrepresentation, particularly on the off chance that it has logical research backing the outcomes. It additionally features the naïveté of general society everywhere to think anything that restorative research reports without scrutinizing the discoveries. Sadly, the media consideration such cases of this “fake” science get helps in persuading huge numbers of its honesty. The promotion encompassing the conviction that vaccines cause autism started in 1998 when Andrew Wakefield in the UK distributed an article in the Lancet connecting the measles, mumps, and rubella. As said below
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