Fake News. A term that has been used by the President since taking office, but what exactly is it? Fake News is the use of journalism and advertising that consist of disinformation and falsified truths. Facebook on the other hand has tried to combat this use of misinformation to its public. Even though Facebook has made some way to get the spread of falsified information off of its platform they still have a lot of work to do.
In recent years, Facebook has been under fire about the spread of misinformation on their site. Examples include the 2016 Presidential Election, foreign entities, and UN stating that Facebook played a role in the Genocide of Muslims in Myanmar.
We face great distrust when big social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google, post or censor specific information that may either be false or misinterpreted. Studies have shown that most people in the digital age do not read past the headlines of stories and that by modifying the headline to a mislead article the aftermath could be disastrous.
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