The Problem of Creating Fake News in Social Media and Its
Impact on Society
ENGL 2074 - Social Media and Society
University of Cincinnati
December 10, 2023
This paper will look at 4 different articles around fake news and we
will argue how fake news in social media is creating a global crisis
and how people become extremists via social media and how far it can
go. We will look at one side from various authors on their takes on
how much social media plays into the part of fake news and we will
argue the fact of how susceptible we are to what we see and read on
social media and be able to tell the difference and not get suckered
into all the fake news around us in society. In today’s society, there is
a lot of talk about what is real news and what is fake news. What is
believable and what is just outlandish and just trying to get views or
clicks.
How much does fake news play into today’s society? How can we tell
what is real and what is fake? What causes social media and media
outlets to push fake news rather than real news? Is this just a trend that
will come and go or is this the reality we live in today? All of this will
be answered in the paper and well look at both sides.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
Today, when we open up social media weather its Facebook, Twitter,
or even Instagram, we get our daily news and sometimes we run
across articles that we look at twice and end up clicking to read about.
Thanks to Donald Trump for coining the phrase “Fake News” and
making everything that is discussed as fake news, we are click baited
into articles that tend to have a catchy title and ends up being nothing
but nonsense and rubbish just to the publisher can get views or people
to react to their article. It has gotten to the point where Fox News was
accused a few times of reporting on Fake News just because they
wanted to be the first to report it. Now on the social media aspect of it,
there’s a lot of clickbait on YouTube just alone because they want to
gain views, so they can get paid for it. Then you have people on
Facebook that place articles just, so they can get clicks and at the end
it just hurts them as a publisher and hurts the websites legitimacy in
the long run which gain a bad reputation and are not trusted.
Fake News tends to be news that is reported without having all the
information or trying to cover up the truth and push a certain agenda
or propaganda to the readers and use social media as a platform that
makes the Fakes News travel faster and deeper into a network of
people than traditional reporting. As Paul Chadwick said, “False news
can drive misallocation of resources during terror attacks and natural
disasters, the misalignment of business investments, and misinformed
elections.” This goes to show that media outlets who use social media
as a way to get news out, they play on people’s emotions and impulses
to make their fake news believable and during that moment people
will share that news and make it trustworthy when in fact its
misinformation just to get people to click. With all this talk about
Fake News, what really makes an article, or a tweet go viral,
especially during the 2016 elections, are the use of bots and the
algorithm that social media uses such as Twitter. As detailed in this
research paper on social media bots, “First, bots are particularly active
in amplifying fake news in the very early spreading moments, before a
claim goes viral. Second, bots target influential users through replies
and mentions.” This goes to show that users make numerous accounts
that are “bots” to retweet and boost up the tweet of an article to have
influencers on social media do the same and, in a way, legitimize the
article due to the fact of who retweets it, in a way it makes it seem as a
normal human person is doing it. There have even been reports that
due to the use of these bots, fake news travels six times faster than the
truth which amazing to say the least.
Solution
Now what is the argument here? It’s pretty simple, there needs to be
some form of regulation on what is real and what is fake news that is
being put out into social media. The major problem is that people have
gotten to the point where they let their emotions play a major factor
rather than using common sense and logic to actually look more into
these news articles and do their due diligence and research what is
being put out.
So we talk about how the government should regulate social media,
and Sri Lanka did just that when they noticed a lot of fake news and
Facebook posts that were promoting violence against Muslims in their
country. They ended up instating a 10 day nationwide state of
emergency on social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and
WhatsApp to lower the violence throughout the country. They were
monitoring the posts that were placed on social media and tracking
down any and all hate speech posts that might entice a roar up in
violence. This in itself is smart on the part of Sri Lanka because it can
stop any violent crimes before it even takes a form and shut it down.
This is the type of regulation we need in the U.S. to stop any mass
school shootings or hate crimes that result from people posting on
social media just to get the reaction they want to act upon it. People
however will argue that it is their freedom of speech in the U.S., but
little that they know that it is really protected freedom of speech, so
there is only so much you can say until it becomes a potential problem
or threat that will conclude in casualties. With the era of technology
that we live in, you would think there would be more or at least some
kind of regulation on what is posted on social media such as hoaxes of
fake deaths or products or whatever the case may be. Tech companies
should invest in technologies that scan what is being put on various
social media outlets and shut down any disinformation that is being
placed by using algorithms and crowdsourcing to identify the fake
news and users that are placing them on the internet. Another reason
publishers use outlandish headlines to get people to click on the links
is because they get paid from the number of clicks and views their
articles get. The way to shut this down, is not to allow them to
monetize their articles that have disinformation. This is the kind of
regulation that is needed, if YouTube has algorithms that can detect
when content creators use copyright music or content, why is there not
a way to do that with fake news and hoaxes that get spread all over
social media, hence the clickbait people use. Filters can be set into
place to determine what is legitimate and what is little to false
information, so it doesn’t discredit publishers, and this would be the
same for the monetization of the fake news articles that are being
placed online. These filters would use algorithms to determine if this
is a trusted source to be monetized or just nonsense for views and
clicks.
Conclusion
At the end of the day, the internet and social media will be flooded
with fake news and clickbait to sucker in people to get paid from. The
next step we need to take, is to create a filter system to shut down any
kind of fake news or hate speech that will have a negative effect on
the everyday user. By filtering out hoaxes and disinformation, we will
be able to stop any violent crimes before they manifest into something
that is uncontrollable. Regulation needs to happen to minimize the
misuse of information overall and it doesn’t have to be strict, just
enough to be safe.
