Fake News is bad!

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The greatest challenge journalists face today, there are so many social media sites online. Sometimes these sites mislead people to believe things that are not true. According to Business Wire’s website, 53% of U.S. adults get their news from social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. These sites have become the battleground for the “fake news” phenomenon. Unreliable news sources such as clickbait and propaganda as well as manipulation technologies like synthetic media (known as deep fakes, shallow fakes, and speech synthesis) continue to fuel the distrust of reality. False information can spread like a wildfire because anyone can publish anything on Facebook. Today, fake news is becoming a problem across the entire media and consumer technology sector affecting both traditional media (including television, digital, and print) and social media platforms. One way to prevent fake news is to be an informed reader and avoid publishing stuff that isn’t true. When somebody posts false news it can ruin you as a journalist. Fake information can damage a company’s reputation and it is very difficult to rebuild or regain the trust of your audience. There are so many social media on the internet it is hard to detect fake news on these social media platforms.