After weeks of
reading and sharing on how media effects our life recently and the media chaos,
I feel like being more interested in the problem of fake news. Most people
think they spread fake information on the Internet anonymously will not be
caught or be punished; journalism make up fake news to raise people’s attention
and simply apologize with “sorry” after readers found out the news is not true.
With the development of this kind of phenomenon, we get in touch with more and
more fake news nowadays. This time, I would like to talk about how to deal with
the problem of fake news.
Superficially, take
Facebook for example, the company hires employees to browse through popular articles
to see if those are true. In this way, it is efficient delete fake news before more
people read them. Facebook also let its users have the chance to flag content
as being false. Besides, we ourselves can make good use of fact-checking sites.
Fake news stories are often exposed by websites, such as Snopes.com,
TruthOrFiction.com and FactCheck.org.
However, "The
problem of fake news isn't solved by hoping for a referee," Edward Snowden,
who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) without prior authorization in 2013, said.
"We have to exercise and spread the idea that critical thinking matters
now more than ever, given the fact that lies seem to be getting very
popular." Critical thinking is mentioned by lots of my classmates in their
logs. Everyone should develop the ability of critical thinking. Critical thinking
helps us recognize the true and fake and the bad and good of what we receive
and what we share. Since we know the spread of fake news couldn’t stop in like
a day or a month, what we should do is to become more careful and critical when
we are watching every news.
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