"Fake News"

Fake News

"Fake news" is a term that has been thrown around lately, mostly due to the president elect. Donald Trump has seemingly started a trend of this where anything that is against his point of view or supports his ideas. There have been many online stories that have looked real and legitimate and have been proven to be fake. Many people are taking the role of "fact checkers" now in response to all of the fake news floating around. A good example of this would the advertisement strategy for a new movie called "A Cure For Wellness". The PR company that was behind the promotion of this movie thought it would be a good idea to create websites that looked like real news articles and contained information pertaining to the movie, which is a horror movie about a hospital that traps people and makes them terminally ill. This was frightening people and ruining the reputation of other popular newspaper companies. For the movie company, this got the name out there so that people could be familiar with it and it cost them very little to do so. The so called "fact checkers" were quick to cover this and release statements assuring the public that these articles where in deed, fake news. In terms of Donald Trump, the news in which he refers to as "fake news" are simply any news stories that go against his personal beliefs or make him look bad in any way. He has taken to Twitter to release tweets typically past midnight, to get his followers to take his side and combat these news stories and persuade others to believe that they are inaccurate. Some applaud Trump for being so clever to be able to persuade millions that well-known news organizations could release articles that are untrue. He has had much success and has impacted many news paper companies reputations. The newly generated thought of "fake news" has people angry and ready to find the truth.