Article title: Fake or not? Decoding the authenticity of online news
Source: What's New in Publishing
Date: September 2019
URL: https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/fake-or-not-decoding-the-authenticity-of-online-news/
Summary: This article attempts us to convey different strategies and methods for creating fake news that could help us know the origin of fake news. allows us to understand the essence of the problem of creating fake news, there are two main factors in separating fake news: Misinformation and Disinformation will always appear in society, but with the emergence of social media that makes news spread quickly, easily and can reach a large number of people, the impact of fake news is inevitably increasing as well. which all information, details of fake news have not been verified, there is no exact origin neither the journalist nor the news agency published it. spreading fake news in these days is really easily. just have access to media outlets on all platforms. we will see many of news that flowing which has both real and fake mixed together. However, being aware the source of fake news will be able to distinguish that we believe what we see or find out for information thoroughly whether what we see is true or the story is composed.
Reaction: After reading this article I felt that we should be more aware of fake news than before. creating fake news to deceive, trick others is simply and increasing day by day. we have to be conscious of how to handle with and solve with these problems. from the examples in this article, we can see that there are people who are affected by fake news. it cause them very affected, whether it affects to their life, property, social reputation and lead to arrest all of these was done by fake news. Nowadays, with the Internet, everyone can be both a recipient and a producer of written information. receiving and sharing posts, in addition to having truthful information and useful information, there are contents that are only personal opinions, persuasive, propaganda, content aimed at attacking opponents. create various misunderstandings information both true and false, difficult to verify or find the source. Therefore, we must check thoroughly before believing, sharing, finding the exact source of information so as not to fall victim to fake news.
Question: How can we have an effective way to combat with fake news? In the future, there will be a new fake news generating strategy how will be able to recognize it and how we deal with it? Should we target the victims? conduct a questionnaire to see which groups of people are the most victimized?
