The Guardian & the global problem of fake news
1) A number of countries such as Germany, France, Myanmar, India and much more are all similar in the sense that they all have been effected by the increase in Fake News. For example, in Myanmar, a Muslim journalist was recently the victim of a campaign by some of these accounts, when a widely followed nationalist posted pictures of him juxtaposed with images of an unknown Rohingya Muslim militant. The post claimed he was involved in attacks on border police and called for his immediate arrest. But, after they had arrested him, nothing happened and the post on Facebook was removed. However, since the people have identified that the specific stories are fake news, they still believe that there is a chance that it may be true and people start to question themselves if it is true or not and therefore become confused.
2) I believe that with the "culture of freedom and innovation" has had a great impact in fake news. First of all, I believe that with the freedom, the audience have had the access to post and share the views as much as they want to. This then leads to people having different views since they believe that whatever they see on the internet is true and then changes what they believe in. However, what they do not know is that since anyone can post anything, there could be a chance that the news given is fake but no one hardly checks whether or not it is true which leads to the fake news happening frequently and I believe that it can't be changed.
New York Times and the creation of fake news
1) Which fake news stories were particularly successful for Beqa Latsabidze, the 22-year-old student in Tbilisi, Georgia, who tried to make money from web articles on Trump?
The fake news stories that were particularly successful for Beqa Latsabidze was the story that was talking about the US Presidential elections and whom were pro-Trump. Donald Trump's flagship pro-Trump website, departed.co, gained remarkable traction in a crowded field in the prelude to the Nov. 8 election thanks to steady menu of relentlessly pro-Trump and anti-Clinton stories. He also went on to say, “My audience likes Trump,” he said. “I don’t want to write bad things about Trump. If I write fake stories about Trump, I lose my audience.”
2) I believe that to some extent, Facebook and Google can be blamed for the rise in fake news but not as much. For example, Facebook allow their users to post whatever they want to onto the social media sites and even if it is something that may be misleading, Facebook will not be able to do anything about that because of the fact that Facebook have over a billion users and they will not be able to look at everyone's account to check if it fake. In addition, despite that it is being some of their fault they have tried to find ways in which they can prevent it from happening. For example, Google announced that it would ban websites that host fake news from using its online advertising service, while Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, outlined some of the options his company was considering, including simpler ways for users to flag suspicious content.
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