Essays on Fake News

Scientists around the world have made some marvelous discoveries in the past couple of decades however, that is only half of the battle. Despite how beneficial a scientist’s work is for society, there will always be some form of opposition. In recent years, denial of...

Nowadays with the rise of Online networks the phenomenon of “Fake News” have been spreading widely, becoming a controversial issue. People started to question the reasons behind fake news being disseminated in media. The focus of this proposal is to raise the student’s understanding of...

I am writing to you regarding Facebook’s “fake news” controversy over the 2016 presidential election. This unfortunate news has taken an enormous toll on the company and it is best we address this conflict as soon as possible before the situation escalates even further. As...

There once was a time, not too long ago, when opening the news was an easy way to check facts if there was a dispute between two parties. One party would be proven correct, and the other party would be proven as incorrect. Nowadays, however,...

In the post-truth era we are constantly bombarded with “news” which is fabricated, distorted, and massaged information, published with the intention to deceive and mislead others. Such “news” has come to be known as “fake news”. The influence of fake news can have profound socio-political...

Online falsehoods can be defined as information or statements found on the Internet that are untrue and are not fact-based with the intention to misinform other Internet users and subsequently spreading to those of the public. The intention of spreading online falsehoods in Singapore has...

Since immense quantities of individuals in modern day society have a simple access to the Web, it has become a platform for a large number of people to get updated with current news from all over the globe. Unfortunately not everything we encounter on the...

Nowadays it is common for people to receive news especially in social media that may appear to be true but its not. Fake News is a type of propaganda that has misunderstandable information that causes conflict towards others local news. Since technology is advancing so...

What censorship algorithms are is very self-explanatory. They’re algorithms, or formulas, to determine what or what not to censor on the internet. They decide what can and cannot be shown on the internet, and what information sees the light of day. For the past 2...

In this modern era of technology, data and information have never been this accessible to all. Through the different forms and media of communication, information has been disseminated in a wide-spread and fast-paced way. With the introduction of social media, it paved way for a...