IT and Business Crime

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IT and Business Crime
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1IT AND BUSINESS CRIME
Executive Summary
This report extensively discuss about IT and business crimes in the modern era. The report
highlights facts and issues of fake news, the techniques used to generate fake and the
potential damage caused to the public. Thus with the wide and rapid spread of fake news,
countries have taken up legal actions to prevent spreading of fake news.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Fake news...................................................................................................................................3
Techniques applied to generate junk or fake news....................................................................5
Problems created by fake news..................................................................................................7
Application of law for fake news...............................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

3IT AND BUSINESS CRIME
Introduction
Crime in layman’s term can be said it is an unlawful act that stands punishable by the
state or by higher authority. The recent years have seen an increased number of crimes not
just white collar crimes but also in the IT sector. Technology as known has limitless
advantages and it becomes hard to state all of its benefits, but nothing good comes without its
down side. Technology has its own bane. The past decade has seen crime being conducted on
the digital platform with technology being the mastermind in disguise. Crimes in general
have increased in the last epoch with the severity of the act being massive and brutal. In this
contemporary world crime is no more bounded to the physical world but has spread its stretch
to the world of science, technology and information system. The crimes conducted these days
are complex and heinous in nature. Each passing days sees the increase of cyber crime and
each crime more complex than the other with motives beyond comprehension. Taking into
the account the total count of IT crimes or cyber crimes for that matter, the number is
increasing each day and the cyber punks are attacking the most unexpected institutions or
establishment to bring about massive damage with an ulterior motive. Crime has multiple
aspects and attributes which will be further discussed in this essay to get hold of a clear
understanding of the act.
Fake news
Fake news which is also popular by the name of pseudo news is one kind of yellow
journalism that comprise intentional hoaxes and disinformation spread through traditional
media entities those are news media including print and broadcast or through the modern
means of communication that is social media (Kucharski 2016). In the recent years fake
news can be easily spread with the help of social media as it is massively used by a large