https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/29/lies-can-thrive-in-the-social-media-world
Simon Jenkins believes that digital media can be depended on to right the wrongs of political lies. News and politics consumption is developing as news bites, quickly digested before moving on. Although accuracy can be more easily checked and lies rebutted, the sheer volume of inaccurate social media material means that not everything can be corrected. “alternative facts” has always been a risk of history being rewritten, from Japanese textbooks presenting an “alternative” history of the Nanjing massacre of 1937 and other war crimes committed against China during the second world war to David Irving’s Holocaust denial over the murder of Jews at Auschwitz.
O Sweden had created a far right fake fact news checker.
I do agree that we need mechanisms to deal with the lies on the internet. Not just in terms of tackling it online and the way it is produced and promoted but the way it is interpreted to the audience. People need to .be able to learn how to check the accuracy of the information they are receiving and not just take them as fact. However it will have to be shed various times simply because of the amount of fake information is out there.
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