Identifying And Evaluating Of The Fake News In Social Media

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MEDIA FAKE NEWS

AIM OF THE STUDY
The following study is based upon the process of identifying and evaluating certain issues that are
associated with certain fake news which arises in the society through social media platform. The
study in general gives more emphasis under the which is based on “Should social media platforms
to be held accountable for fake news”. There are also certain recommendation factors included to
identify regulatory measures which can be implemented to overcome the respective issue caused on
a complete basis.

WHAT IS FAKE NEWS IN SOCIAL MEDIA?
 Fake news through social media platforms under all terms are considered to be the stories which
look same as news stories but are basically considered to be propaganda, hoaxes and
disinformation.
 Fake news in social media basically appears through online websites which look professional.
 The fake news rising through social media platforms are related to people and topic trending on
Facebook and google.
 These news in social media also contains outrageous headlines modified to attract people.

GROWING PROBLEM IN RECENT YEARS
 News are not systematically controlled by social media platforms -Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
 Anyone of free to start blogs and claim themselves as a journalist.
 No adequate platform to teach research skills on a traditional basis.
 No idea and proper training regarding media literacy for public.

CONSEQUENCES CAUSED
 Fake news in social media gets more views as compared to real news.
 Politicians and Journalist also play a key role under this respective part.
 Social media fake news can create and bring a negative affect on people.

HOW TO SPOT FAKE NEWS (RECOMMENDATION)
 Determining from where the information comes from
 Paying more attention to URL code.
 Reading the About us section of the article.

REFERENCES
Shu, K., Sliva, A., Wang, S., Tang, J. and Liu, H., 2017. Fake news detection on social media: A data mining
perspective. ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter, 19(1), pp.22-36.
Shao, C., Ciampaglia, G.L., Varol, O., Flammini, A. and Menczer, F., 2017. The spread of fake news by social bots. arXiv
preprint arXiv:1707.07592, 96, p.104.
Shu, K., Wang, S. and Liu, H., 2018, April. Understanding user profiles on social media for fake news detection. In 2018
IEEE Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR) (pp. 430-435). IEEE.
Spohr, D., 2017. Fake news and ideological polarization: Filter bubbles and selective exposure on social media. Business
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