What the hell is fake news? There
was always either the news or lies. Now we hear the term fake news all the time
because of the power of unwatched internet social media printing whatever they
feel like all the time for profit or revenge on whomever they dislike. It is
communication on a whole different level and it is damaging to anyone’s
reputation and knowledge of the true facts. It goes back to a new generation of
people who do not possess any ethics but crave fame or fortune as their only
guide in life. This past election was deluged with fake news on both sides. There
are special software to get any message they want out there quickly and to
thousands of people on their various news feeds. Messages uncensored or researched
for accuracy or truth to facts.
People react to outrageous fake
stories and believe that the statements are real. They are so outraged that
they react in violent ways or with real threats. There is a particularly
outrageous website called Danger & Play that regularly posts inflammatory fake
statements for attention and views. They made up, “Clinton’s inner circle
includes child traffickers, pedophiles and now members of a sex cult”. They
even posted that children were being held in a Washington D.C. Pizza place; then
Edgar Welch, a disgruntled man tried to save the children and opened
fire with an automatic weapon and of course there were no children being abused
there. The man believed the lies. The thousands of posts made people send death
threats to the Pizza place. People are being terrified for no reason.
Outrageous stories like this one
has no basis in facts but they are being circulated. The author of that
statement reaches 82 million Twitter users like Donald Trump every month. Sometimes
he reaches 150 million per month. This site is just one of hundreds just making
up things to write. Some fake news authors use bots to get their messages more
places like on Facebook. Bots are fake social media accounts that are programed
to automatically re-tweet or be circulated on common social media accounts. Consultants
that help advertisers to be circulated everywhere know all about Bots. They are
Twitter accounts masquerading as real people by the millions. You can buy
thousands of Bots on a Russian website called BuyAccs.com for just a few
hundred dollars. Within minutes your Tweet can reach thousands and then
millions when they re-tweet. It gets passed around faster than viruses. The
damage is done before the real facts can be explained.
Are we going to have revolutions
and wars begun this way? Our President regards his Twitter account with more
respect than the 16 spy agencies taxpayers pay to protect us and research
predators in our country. He has believed lies and spoke publicly about them as
truth. Most of the problem lies with Facebook and Twitter because they choose
items to publish based on how popular they are whereas news organizations that
have been around for a hundred years base their news on truth and research with
sources to back up their statements to the public. This practice makes Facebook
and Twitter very irresponsible yet they are so popular. Two fake news sites are
Denverguardian and National Report that has made the owner millions of dollars
in advertising money writing fiction as fact.
During the election there was
posted the same amount of fake news as real news. Never before in history has
more information been available to more people. Too bad there is so much greed
and fame mongers out there destroying the whole purpose of spreading the news. Never
before in history has more bad news been circulated. Must good vs. evil always
fight everywhere at any time?
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