Essays on Fake News

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…

Media confidence in Australia fell to a record low of 31%, and consumers agreed to a global survey of trust and credibility in institutions, and tried to tell false news about the difference between the real costs of conversation. Edomann Trust Scale, in the four…

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…

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” – Voltaire, The Catholic Church suppressing atheistic books. Hitler banned all books in Nazi Germany except for his autobiography, Mein Kampf. The apartheid government prohibited news of resistance being…

DEFINATION AND MEANING 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, television, radio and social media some news editors can take advantage of…

In the last few years, the ‘Fake News’ about cow protection in the name of cow-meat and now it’s about child theft and is being shared on social media platforms, and now it’s turning the country a crowd and taking it in line of mob-lynching….

As technology is overpowering our thinking ability, one without reasoning any particular event is likely to fall prey to the misinformation which is in front of our eyes. This misinformation is nothing but ‘fake news’. India is not an exception, as it records with over…