https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/17/barack-obama-fake-news-facebook-social-media
President Obama spoke about how he believes that fake news undermines US politics. He states that there is ''so much misinformation' this is 'packaged very well' and looks the same. People don't know what to protect or disregard. It demeans democratic freedom. A Buzzfeed investigation showed that fake news outperformed real news. People are only motivated by ad revenue.
O Fake news during the presidential election was typically anti-Clinton and Pro-Trump - They were shared, liked and commented on 8.7 million times on Facebook.
O Legitimate news stories were only engaged with on average 7.4 million times.
O nearly 40 percent of the content published by far right Facebook pages and 19 percent of the content published by extreme left-leaning Facebook pages was false or misleading.
O 44 percent of all adults get their news from Facebook.
I believe that fake news is having an impact on a variety of things - especially since people aren't challenging news - believing everything that they read means that they are forced into seeing things that aren't true and using these as a basis for their views. This obviously means that things are being undermined - democracy especially. It is no longer fair - people are stuck in echo chambers and are completely immersed in an outcome that isn't totally realistic. People believe that what they are reading is true and it alters their perception to the point which their opinion is based on lies.
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