Essays on Fake News

An endemic has been plaguing Filipino society for while now, frequently making its appearance in facebook walls, twitter feeds, and the reddit scene. This disease to society being the widespread of fake news, slander, and disinformation throughout social media, notably made popular by none other…

Online falsehoods or fake news as they are commonly called refers to the “false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting”. With the rise of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, people now have more avenues to get their news other…

Online falsehood is a purpose intend of the person organization spreading the information on web platform that is incontrovertibly false which contains an important impact such as affecting the national security and sovereignty. Their aims are to attack institution, public and people by weaken public…

News is something which contains the outcome of new sources fact and figures but sometimes it can mislead by distributing fake news. Everyone in this world is stick to newspapers tv radio social media some news editors can take advantage of this as they know…

The concept that was chosen for this paper is Fake News. Fake News is something new to me in the last couple of years. I have seen plenty of Fake News articles especially around the 2016 U.S. Elections. Fake news can be defined as a…

In the wake of Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump to power, numerous intellectuals and media have pointed out the rather disturbing reality that contemporary political events are led by the propagation of misleading information and outright false claims. The term “post-truth” designated to…

In a time of constant online evolution; fake news is just a new format for lies and gossip to be spread to a wide audience. Except that now, it isn’t Perez Hilton sat in front of a webcam in 2007, criticising Britney Spears for her…

It is tricky to be able to distinguish what is true or false in news stories, especially when one is surrounded by many kinds of information, without having clear background knowledge or the right resources to assess how accurate this information might be. It is…

This research work study of the legal provisions, judgements and laws enacted under different statutes regulate cybercrimes occurring on social networking websites. Even though it appears that social media has got the world closer, there is a flipside to it. Many offenders use this vulnerable…

Based on the premise that Country X regulates the Internet via the Broadcast (Class Licensing) Regulation as Singapore, there is still a limit to what the government alone can achieve in the face of fake news. The government has already established laws that are reactive…