American Government: Critique on Fake News and Political Polarization

This report provides a critique of two articles related to American Government. The first article, "How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down," examines the impact of misinformation and the spread of fake news, particularly focusing on an incident in Twin Falls, Idaho, and the role of anti-immigrant sentiment and Islamophobia. The second article, "Political Polarization in the American Public," discusses the increasing partisan antipathy and ideological uniformity among American citizens, demonstrating the widening gap between Democrats and Republicans and the impact of ideological silos on political compromise and daily life. The report summarizes each article, identifies a shortcoming in the first article (few interviews), and poses questions about the articles' methodology and potential solutions to the issues discussed, such as the role of authorities in controlling fake news and the validity of sources used.

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The first article ‘How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down’ has been written
by Caitlin Dickerson, a reporter on nation immigration in the territory of New York. This Article
is based on an incident of a gang rape, which has been come out in a local paper namely, Twin
Falls Idaho. The incident has made on the basis of a gang rape of a little girl at a knife point and
it has suspected that the perpetrators of this incidents are Syrian refugees (Dickerson, 2017). This
incident has happened in an apartment of Fawnbrook. However, it is unclear to one of crime
scanner, namely brown that any Syrian has not been resettled in any place of Twin Falls. An
incident of a governing network of anti-Muslim accomplishments through the media. A story of
a woman has become viral within the country without any justification of authentication. German
police authority has acknowledged that incident under a political pressure. The author has done
an investigation regarding how any person has been allowed for publishing any fake news or
false information to express his anger to the audience.
The second article ‘Political Polarization in the American Public,’ has discussed how
such partisan antipathy and ideological uniformity affects compromise, politics, as well as in
everyday lives of the American citizens. The author of this article has demonstrated that
Democrats and Republicans have more alienated along with the ideological lines, as well as
partisan antipathy is more extensive and deeper in a point in last twenty years (people-press.org.,
2014). It has revealed in that article that the conservative or liberal opinions of the Americans,
who have expressed those, become double over the last twenty years to 21% from 10%. The
author has demonstrate ideological silos and its effect on the lives of Americans. It has
convinced the polarization of politics among the public of America. According to the author, the
Republicans have shifted towards the Right, as well as the Democrats have shifted towards the
left between the consistently liberal and consistently conservative. It has demonstrate the
negative views of ideological consistency from the opposite party in the American politics. The
conservatives and liberals has shared their passion in the politics as they supported the mixed
views of ideology for discussing politics in a daily basis.
The first article of this assignment has been demonstrated regarding the impact of fake
news in a society or town. The author has discussed how such social media spreads fake news in
society, which affects the mind of the persons. She has critically discussed how such fake news
has been fueled by such anti-immigrants, as well as Islam phobia sentiment. However, the author
of this article does not provide any conclusion or interference of such issues. She demonstrates
the situation regarding this matter in a very sound way. She has investigated to write this article,
which is a great indication of authentication regarding the evidence for such article. However,
she has taken very few interviews for this article, which is a negative aspect of this first article.
The second article of this assignment has been deliberated such political polarization among the
public of America. The author of this article has critically shown this polarization with the help
of various charts, graphs, scales and many other methods. At the end of that article, he has
discussed about the sources of the reports, as well as regarding the collection of data and
information. He has demonstrated the statistical data with colorful graphs, which is very suitable
to the readers to understand such data. The author has made various points of the topic to
convince such political environment in the state of America, which has helped to understand.
The other people that Americans can able to appreciate the political environment of America.
However, if the author is able to use some secondary sources then this article will be more
authenticated.
The question arises from the first article that why the author of that article does not
inform to the authority who has been controlling such fake news. Another question has been

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arisen that why the author does not include any solution of such matter in her article, which may
be helped to the people to reduce or avoid such news. The question for the second article has
been arisen that whether there is an authentication of such sources used in this article or not.
However, it can be concluded that the from the above mentioned articles, the readers can
understand the political environment in the territory of America.

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References
Dickerson, C. (2017). How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down. Retrieved 4 April
2020, from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/magazine/how-fake-news-turned-a-small-
town-upside-down.html
people-press.org. (2014). Political Polarization in the American Public. Retrieved 4 April 2020,
from https://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/