{"id":111208,"date":"2018-04-25T14:53:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T13:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=111208"},"modified":"2020-05-10T19:31:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T18:31:34","slug":"how-to-identify-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/how-to-identify-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Identify Fake News and What You Can Do To Stop It"},"content":{"rendered":"
Many years ago, when people got their news mainly from papers, magazines, radio, and television, fake news was not commonplace. But in the last decade, as the world went high tech with the growth of the internet and social media, fake news stories and fake news sites became proliferated.<\/p>\n
Talks about fake news have turned into a new focus on media literacy in general and the roles of institutions and libraries in providing this. Despite driving worldwide discussions,\u00a0 fake news appears to be powering ahead of facts.<\/p>\n
At the heart of the problem is the fact that many fake news sites deliberately try to make people believe they are real\u00a0either by not disclosing their intention which is usually to cause humour or hide it deep within their site. Others, on the other hand, intentionally try to sell false tales to\u00a0drive traffic to their site and earn advert revenue. Guess what? Such sites\u00a0achieve their aim as many people circulate bewildering contents or headlines more than accurate contents that are very direct. They do these without even reading it or evaluating it.<\/p>\n
Identifying fake news from the real news is not that easy and there seems not to be a trick for figuring that out. However, there are steps that when followed, may get one closer to identifying the wrongs from the rights in news.<\/p>\n