Fake News Media in the U.S.

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Growing up, the news channel was always on in my house. My father, who is pretty conservative, usually only had it on Fox News. Every now again though my father would switch it to CNN. One day I just asked him “ if you don't like CNN then why do you watch it?” Then he said something to me I wont forget, “son you always have to try and know your enemy, but you also have to think for yourself.” Now I know this sounds like two different quotes in one, but what he meant by that was that even though he's not a fan of CNN he wants to know what they're thinking, because we have to be able to forum our own opinions. If we don't think for ourselves, anything we hear that’s news related, even if its fake news, will consume our thoughts. Then the biased news media outlets who are spreading the fake news will control us. In my opinion though, almost all news nowadays is fake news. The top two news media outlets, CNN who leans left, and Fox News who leans right, are always attacking...

Now if you want to find out more about fake news there are plenty of resources out there! If you wanted to keep up to date on the latest fake news, top stories and analysis you could go to https://www.politico.com/tag/fake-news . If you really wanted to dive deep into the fake news you could check out an article by the Atlantic called “The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News.” In this article they analyze all the major new stories in english on twitter. What they find out is that the false stories and rumors spread way faster than accurate stories and they really dissect how fake news overcame the true news stories.  https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/ . This next article is very interesting because of how fake news affects us during the coronavirus pandemic. It also really explains how misleading information flourishes during a pandemic. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/3...

So why is there even fake news and who invented it? You could say fake news started with President Donald Trump in 2016, but people have been lying about the news probably since the first newspaper. In an article called “Why is Fake News Invented?” from 30seconds.org, fake news can come from anyone and with the internet they can post anything anonymously. People can also spread fake news for multiple reasons, whether it is to promote an ideology, or even a product, but most of the time it’s for money, especially with major news outlets (30secounds 2019). The major news outlets mostly care about rating because their ratings are linked to their advertising slots, which is how they get paid. If they got low ratings all the time other companies wouldn't want to advertise on their broadcast or website. It's all about the clicks! https://30secondes.org/en/module/why-is-fake-news-invented/

One problem people sometimes have when it comes to getting reliable news information is that they can't seem to always tell if their news source is reliable or not. Well, thanks to Christina Nagler, from Harvard Summer school, we are given really good tips for spotting fake news! A couple of ways you can check your information is by checking the credibility of the news source, or even checking the sources' citations (Nagler 2020). If you're still having a hard time with your sources information you can always visit fact checking websites like FactCheck.org (Nagler 2020). Even though there are so many ways for us to check our sources, fake news sometimes still becomes viral, but how? One reason Nagler mentions is that some headlines really grab our attention and with social media we are easily able to share the headlines with our friends and family, but it's not as easy to evaluate or even read the actual article (Nagler 2020). Nagler also points out that people are mor...