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In today's time we often see there are different versions of information
which have been showcased by the media . This is applicable for print
and digital forms of media which consists mostly of local and national
level news pages and channels. It can be easily seen that there is
difference between the information given by some parts of the digital
and printed media while the other parts show something else which could
be related to the topic but changes the perspective of the readers.
For example:- news paper X shows the benefits of all the policies been
offered by the governing party at the national and state level ,while on
the other hand a different newspaper company Y may try to show it as a
counterfeit decision.
Such differences between two early morning news providers can make up
for being a key reason of debate between the way that people see the
government's working . It can be good or bad but it depends more on the
version we read.
Fake news is a form of news consisting of deliberate disinformation or
hoaxes spread via traditional news media (print and broadcast) or online
social media.
Digital news has brought back and increased the
usage of fake news, or yellow journalism. The news is then often
reverberated as misinformation in social media but occasionally finds
its way to the mainstream media as well.
Fake news is written and published usually with the intent to mislead in
order to damage an agency, entity, or person, and/or gain financially or
politically, often using sensationalist, dishonest, or outright
fabricated headlines to increase readership. Similarly, clickbait
stories and headlines earn advertising revenue from this activity.
We must understand that even if fake news is able to get the spotlight
,we must get to the bottom of it by reading everything written or told
about and not just looking at the headline and assume all that written
about it has been provided. We must know that headlines are made
attractive so that people stop to have a look at them and not just
belief that the information provided by headlines is enough.
We are the fastest spreaders of fake news as in form of message or
through social media sights and must be aware of what we share because
if you are sharing a fake news then you are a part of the crime
committed by a greedy for money , hater of a particulars personality
,etc .
Himank Jain
Writer
Philomath team