A newspaper that is titled Fake News in terms misinformation. Artificial intelligence is gearing up to capture misinformation including fact-checking and verified sources. MERRIAM-WEBSTER/METANEWS
Recent technological advancements like the internet have vastly improved the speed and the mode of communication, but they have given rise to a new problem, “fake news.”
Then-US President Donald Trump gets into a heated exchange with CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta (R) during a post-election press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on November 7, 2018. Trump’s accusations of fake news towards CNN started the trend towards the main stream media and the era of misinformation. JIM WATSON/METANEWS
Fake news is a false story or information peddled to push a narrative or the cause of the source. Every internet user, at some point, has come across fake news. The stories are usually written to sensationalize or muddle the truth and are spread faster than the truth, according to a 2018 .
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