Analysis of the impact of fake news today
Summary
The present work analyzes and interprets the false news, as well as the different views of different authors, how they consider or define the fake news.
You can also verify the influence they have towards people and how they generate great dissemination and impact on the audience. Its use is identified and for what scope they are generated, it is possible to verify that they are used for politics, as well as to keep the population entertaining when some issue of great controversy happens.
It is verified that people have gone from configuring a content and diffuser of content as a media. This transformation is explained by the possibility offered by social networks when publishing any type of piece, whether informative or for another purpose, and share it with any person in the close environment.
Introduction
False news influence the reader’s perspective, as they acquire that information and also as propagate it, that is, how this news is written so that it can have an impact and generate controversy on users, as well as which whichis the style they apply.
In the present work we will see what are the forms of false news, why this news is generated and written, what is their objective, why they impact citizens and how it is to propagate in a massive and uncontrollable way.
We will analyze Fake News holders, as well as we will see the background of these news, since approximately it is that they exist and what is its end.
Theoretical framework
To stop the disinformation circle, it is important that both journalists and citizens can become aware that it is an issue that has an impact on society as a whole, which affects democratic integrity and must be addressed in its political, social and cultural dimensions.
Background
Origin of Fake News
False news has been used for many centuries to justify difficult decisions. Since the origin of the times, the dissemination of falsified information has been a useful resource for any sphere of power that will seek an objective.
There is a certain consensus in defining fake news as false information, either disseminated by traditional media, or by social networks, whose purpose is to deceive or manipulate the public to achieve certain objectives. It coincides with the concept of misinformation, literal translation of the Russian term "Dezinformatsia" used by the Soviets in the twenties to refer to the "poisoning" campaigns that, according to them, launched the capitalist countries
It is about transmitting, with the support of the media of maximum diffusion (today social networks), a credible speech capable of capturing the attention of the public, based on stereotypes and prejudices and raising emotions to mobilize and induce opinions, decisions and actions and actions. But it is unquestionable that this happened long before the appearance of Facebook and Twitter.
Appearance of fake news
Its use in the political sphere does not invent Trump. Already the dissemination of false news fogged, in 1800, the fourth American presidential elections, when John Adams, successor of George Washington, wanted to repeat mandate, as his predecessor. He was accused among other things to support the aristocracy or to want to establish the monarchy, marrying his son John Quincy Adams with a daughter of the King of England. Jefferson defeated him. Nor could John Quincy Adams stay four more years, when in 1828 he finished his first term: Andrew Jackson’s lies could more than his own. If Jackson was an adulterer and had killed prisoners indiscriminately, Adams made diplomacy with the tsar by providing female company, or the bill of his pool table passed to the government. All lies.
They have also always served to achieve support for difficult measures or mobilize the people according to certain interests. The creation of a hostile environment towards the Jews at the end of the 16th century in Spain is documented before decreeing its expulsion. Repeatedly defamed as heretics and usurers, they are also accused of dates close to the decree of making fun of the laws of Christians and considering them idolatries;mention is made to the "abominable circumcisions and Jewish perfidia";Lepra’s Judaism is qualified;It is recalled that the Jews “by their own fault are subject to perpetual servitude, to be servants and captive“ but the lace was put by the car of faith in which the Inquisition burned three converts and two Jews unjustly condemned as later demonstrated byAn alleged ritual crime against a Christian child (known later as the Holy Child of the Guard). It was the month of November 1491. The context was already conducive to expulsion, which was executed four months later.
All this happens in a context of post -truth, a term defined by the Oxford Dictionary as the word of the year in 2016 and refers to the circumstances in which the objective facts are less important when modeling public opinion than the appeals to theemotion or personal beliefs.
Fundamentals
Sociological foundation
Currently fake news has a great range on social networks, these can become so convincing, that they can change and modify people’s behavior and thought.
These false news aim to distract the public, keep them busy so that they are not objective and lose sight.
In Peru, fake news is taking a fundamental role, they are usually used in the political sphere, they seek to misinform citizens spreading false information to manipulate public opinion.
Fake News definitions
- According to Juan José Morodo, a degree in Information Sciences from the Complutense "False News" is a contradiction in its terms. False news is a lie. The worst effect of the lie is that it cancels the ability to truthfully interpret reality. The consequence of this is that people, organizations and society in general become vulnerable to the interests of those who lie.
- According to Francisco Sierra, Bachelor of Information Sciences and Political Science from the Complutense University of Madrid. The problem of false news is not new. There have always been false news. The difference today is technology. With Internet and social networks we find an enormous difficulty in identifying the origin of that news. To this is added the speed with which they expand to 30 through the networks and, above all, the one that causes that it is often shared by people we know, whether family or friends, through those same social networks. And this third aspect is in itself very pernicious.
Discussion
There have always been deceptive news, but from the emergence of the Internet and new communication and information technologies, fake news has proliferated throughout the planet. This term is used to conceptualize the dissemination of false news that causes a dangerous disinformation circle. Social networks allow users to be producers and consumers of content at the same time, and have facilitated the dissemination of deceptive, false or manufactured content. This generates a vicious circuit, and false news is replicated thousands of times in seconds. Quality journalism and citizens’ right to be informed are suffering the impact of this phenomenon that becomes increasingly dangerous and influences in different ways in democratic practices.
We will analyze a head of one of the fake news that achieved greater impact on the world.
"Pope Francis supports Trump’s candidacy"
Wtooe 5 was published on the satirical website. This headline had a scope for more than one million people in the world thanks to social networks, generating reactions and impact on public opinion.
This was one of the most controversial false news in Trump’s presidential race and the Vatican, since he expressed his sympathy for the candidate and invited to vote for him, indirectly clearly.
From the field of stylistics and style that the authors of fake news handles, in this particular case a short phrase is used for the headline, but the one who writes it knows that it will generate a great impact, then it is understood thatBy directly placing names of people who are very important in a holder, it will be expanded uncontrollably. So it is possible to appreciate in the head of this news is that it is sought that the reader does not investigate the issue in depth, but that the headline came to persuade quickly and this does not contrast sources to be able to verify if it is true information orFalse, but how to know if a story is true or false, it is very difficult to differentiate since | A news having a great scope seems to be reliable for the reader.
According to David Alandete ABCEN Washington correspondent, he mentions that “70% of misinformation is due to two factors: novelty and status. When someone shares false information, gains status before their followers »
"Much of the strategy of these manipulators is to discredit the personal prestige" of those who dare to inform this powerful machinery.
The increase in false news, which have multiplied their ability to spread in part by social networks, is something that worries both companies and the political sphere and individual people.
Fake News, by their nature, content and objective that they pursue, prevent the construction of a rational and well -formed judgment. By distorting reality and discrediting those information contrary to this false news, they negatively condition the decision making of individuals who consume this type of content. The basis of citizenship thought can be affected by the proliferation of this false news. Because they do not have all the information when forming their own judgment, the quality of the result of their actions will not be the same as if they had total knowledge of the subject in question.
If we analyze the style of false news, because they become problems since we are full of news whose falsehood, partly or everything is verifiable, but do not originate exactly or deliberately.
A clear example that happened in Peru, was to disseminate an image of prosecutor Domingo Pérez along with Abimael Guzmán and was heading "Fiscal Domingo Pérez related to terrorism"
This headline reached different audiences, had a great scope, the information was disseminated, since most readers shared this news. Clearly when the days passed, it was denied, but which believe that it was the news that the false or the true impact had, without hesitation the false news. Here is a serious problem since the public easily disseminates information without validating the sources, without verifying the content.
A great responsibility is the means of communication, since they are the channels through which the information is disseminated, then if a medium issues a news without having evidence or sources in between, since it generates confusion and loses credibility.
What is sought when publishing the false news, is that the reader can be sufficiently convinced with only the head of the news, these news are written without any filter, without any repair and reach a level of persuading the reader and manipulatingTo thus change the way of thinking and analyzing the reader.
Results
In the present work the interpretation of the fake news is carried out, that is, it is analyzed how they are written and what is their impact of manipulation power towards citizens.
A result is reached that the false news is what readers do not deepen the news, manipulates or written in such a way that just reading the headline, the information seems to be true, it is also proven that they are used inmostly for the political sphere, since in this aspect a news is quite relevant to readers, then they are used to criticize, damage the image of people, or to persuade in some decision.
Conclusions
- Fake News are usually used mostly in the political sphere
- The objective of fake news is that the reader does not deepen the information
- It seeks to change the way of thinking and acting the reader
- They are disseminated in large masses
- Fake News are written without any filter and without having any source in between
Bibliographic references
- Marc Amorós García, 2018, Fake News
- https: // www.Palermo.EDU/CELE/PDF/FakeNews.PDF
- https: // www.Servimedia.es/sites/default/files/documents/report_fake_fake_news.PDF
- David Alandete. 2019. Fake News: The new weapon of mass destruction. Editorial Planeta. Barcelona.
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