FAKE NEWS.

Fake News are related to articles containing fictitious information that deal with a lot of themes. This kind of articles try to convince us about something that is not true. Before the common use of social media, Fake news increased slowly. Nowadays, more and more people use media such as Facebook and Instagram. It means that users can share news and sometimes they help Fake News to become viral.
Their goal is often to manipulate readers on different issues. These news could also change our minds. Indeed, when we serf the net we always see some ads that push us to buy some products that we didn’t even know. So they try to make us click on a link that might be dangerous for our smartphones or laptops.
There are some tips that could help us to recognize a bad news from a good one. It also has data, surveys and quotes without writing the real origin of them. When we read an article, we must be sure that the writer is a reliable person such as an expert, a professor, or a famous reporter and so on.
When we find out that we are reading a Fake article our job is to report the post to the social media’s supervisors . We can also leave a bad feedback and, in this case people can avoid to read them. Instead, if we share them and put ” likes” to a post, we are helping fake journalists earning easy money.
In conclusion next time that we surf the net we should pay more attention on what we read before we share news.

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Autore:

Morena Di Stefano

Classe:

2E L