Social media fake news is comforting, pleasant and make you confident?
While media is failing to show both sides of coins and most of them are biased towards extremes of either sides. Our Social Media generation is more attracted towards WhatsApp, and other social media news. There was a time we used to listen and read media representing both parties. Then time changed and social media started growing. Social media has given us a medium to express ourself, provided a platform to expose ourselves and see the things the way we want to. In the era of social media, we see/read whatever we prefer or want to which please us. If there is someone who don't speak according to us, we just unfollow or start opposing to that person on every topic the person is talking about.
A huge chain of followers who keeps forwarding the fake news without checking any facts said in the news. With this chain of forwardingness, there are people who creates wrong perception about the subject said in the news. Recently I was in a conversation with two people. I'll explain the situation like this. There was myself, P1 and P2 (friend of P1). All of us are educated and have interest in politics. This is how it started.
P2: I salute the mayor of Dorval for refusing muslim parents request to remove pork from school cafeteria. I'm really fan of him and support his action. P2 handed phone to P1 saying "You should read this news".
P1: Started reading the news loudly and I tried to sneak into the screen to see the website of the news. It turned out that it was a messages forwarded from someone.
Myself: Immediately I started searching for some relevant news and typed some keywords in Google. The first search was from http://hoax-slayer.com and I got suspicious about the content being read on phone. When P1 and P2 almost finished the conversation, I turned the monitor to them; P1 & P2 were both like, I was kidding. Then, next I found press release from City of Dorval denouncing false news circulation about the same. It is Mar 2017 and the press release was from Jan 2015, so I believe hoax was circulated around Jan 2015.
After some discussion, P1 and P2 agreed on it to be fake but insisted that there has to be some incident thats why someone from mayors' office made a statement unofficially. Then I searched for some similar incident happened during 2014-15 but found nothing except one more similar hoax about mayor in Belgium was in circulation during 2013. Seriously!!! there was no such news around the time of 2015 regarding the topic under discussion, and still being justified that mayor put it unofficially. AND it is believed in 2017. After some discussion, we all agreed on it to be faked with no lack of belief in P2. (This is another thing there has been some genuine news recently).
Yess, media is not doing a fair job, but there is some reliability what they are reporting. We can track the reporter, date, place, time but news on WhatsApp and SM, you can't track source; forget about everything else. From time to time I face people saying blah blah blah... and when asked about the source, WhatsApp is the answer.
Feeling Disappointed!!
Adi
If something needs public attention and debate, let the topic and author be real. Don't bring someones' else name into it because one is popular or influential. If the popular one thinks that topic should be debated, the person will bring it forward or if you think it should be debated, bring it forward as YOU or ask someone who you want to. But, stop giving statement by bringing someones' name when one has to deny later.
We can believe on what we want to, but it makes me sad when there are people who feel confident based on fake news (or morphed) news on social media. When I say FAKE, it means the news never existed, it was manufactured by someone.
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A huge chain of followers who keeps forwarding the fake news without checking any facts said in the news. With this chain of forwardingness, there are people who creates wrong perception about the subject said in the news. Recently I was in a conversation with two people. I'll explain the situation like this. There was myself, P1 and P2 (friend of P1). All of us are educated and have interest in politics. This is how it started.
P2: I salute the mayor of Dorval for refusing muslim parents request to remove pork from school cafeteria. I'm really fan of him and support his action. P2 handed phone to P1 saying "You should read this news".
P1: Started reading the news loudly and I tried to sneak into the screen to see the website of the news. It turned out that it was a messages forwarded from someone.
Myself: Immediately I started searching for some relevant news and typed some keywords in Google. The first search was from http://hoax-slayer.com and I got suspicious about the content being read on phone. When P1 and P2 almost finished the conversation, I turned the monitor to them; P1 & P2 were both like, I was kidding. Then, next I found press release from City of Dorval denouncing false news circulation about the same. It is Mar 2017 and the press release was from Jan 2015, so I believe hoax was circulated around Jan 2015.
After some discussion, P1 and P2 agreed on it to be fake but insisted that there has to be some incident thats why someone from mayors' office made a statement unofficially. Then I searched for some similar incident happened during 2014-15 but found nothing except one more similar hoax about mayor in Belgium was in circulation during 2013. Seriously!!! there was no such news around the time of 2015 regarding the topic under discussion, and still being justified that mayor put it unofficially. AND it is believed in 2017. After some discussion, we all agreed on it to be faked with no lack of belief in P2. (This is another thing there has been some genuine news recently).
It is not the topic, religion, or class which concerns me. Im concerned about people, their perception manufactured from fake news being spread on WhatsApp and social media.
Yess, media is not doing a fair job, but there is some reliability what they are reporting. We can track the reporter, date, place, time but news on WhatsApp and SM, you can't track source; forget about everything else. From time to time I face people saying blah blah blah... and when asked about the source, WhatsApp is the answer.
Feeling Disappointed!!
Adi
If something needs public attention and debate, let the topic and author be real. Don't bring someones' else name into it because one is popular or influential. If the popular one thinks that topic should be debated, the person will bring it forward or if you think it should be debated, bring it forward as YOU or ask someone who you want to. But, stop giving statement by bringing someones' name when one has to deny later.
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