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Shocked? Let see what happened before that let's read a quote by Ann curry- 'Journalism is an act of faith in the future'. It's true. Can you imagine a day without newspaper, a day without being updated to your surrounding and worldwide? NO. But what if all you read as news is fake. With the growing technology we have number of weapons to fight for our rights and share our views to the whole world. Socia media is one of them, with the growing social media uses and citizen journalism Fake news has become very common. Now the question arises what is fake news?
Fake news is a big thing in the field of social media journalism. It can be as simple as spreading misinformation or as dangerous as smearing hateful agenda. Fake news is something which is being spread over social media network without any authenticity and credibility, they are spread for the sake of spreading and also to spread hatred and mislead people.
Shocked? Let see what happened before that let's read a quote by Ann curry- 'Journalism is an act of faith in the future'. It's true. Can you imagine a day without newspaper, a day without being updated to your surrounding and worldwide? NO. But what if all you read as news is fake. With the growing technology we have number of weapons to fight for our rights and share our views to the whole world. Socia media is one of them, with the growing social media uses and citizen journalism Fake news has become very common. Now the question arises what is fake news?
Fake news is a big thing in the field of social media journalism. It can be as simple as spreading misinformation or as dangerous as smearing hateful agenda. Fake news is something which is being spread over social media network without any authenticity and credibility, they are spread for the sake of spreading and also to spread hatred and mislead people.
the digital chip story in rupee 2000's currency after demonetization or your whatsapp inbox is filled with news like snowfall in Mumbai or have you have that rare picture of Mahatma Gandhi with Dalai Lama or you've heard of a 65 year old woman who was accused of child trafficking and later was killed by a mob or have you heard about the news of two young men in Guwahati who were killed by mob as they were accused of kidnapping, and in guilt of not being responsible citizen of India you forwarded it on your whatsapp facebook and twitter and several other social media platforms, so dear you're still a irresponsible citizen of India and even a criminal now.
Reasons behind Fake news:
- -Lack of facts and transparency in media channels
- -Growing industry
- -Lack of faith in journalism and media organisation
- -Internet being the fast medium
- -Cheap data plans
and so on.
Now if there's a problem what can be the anti-tode to it, because it is difficult to analyze the authenticity of news due to heavy internet traffic. Government of India under Ministry or Science and technology in collaboration with Google has started a plan to spread and stop fake news. One person posts a picture of a woman and the picture says that the woman is being molested with a caption describing about the incident in recent say 2018 in XYZ tragedy. To check the credibility of the news open google in your phones/tablet/laptops > go for "GOOGLE REVERSE IMAGE RESEARCH" >UPLOAD THAT PARTICULAR PICTURE ON THE GOOGLE, the related content will be displayed. To check the exact news, time of the news and it's credibility, opt for Time customize option in Google say for year 2014. The related content will be displayed on screen, for this you might have to search 3-4 pages on Google.
To be on a safer side Government of India has shortlisted few news websites to with zero fake news:
Now if there's a problem what can be the anti-tode to it, because it is difficult to analyze the authenticity of news due to heavy internet traffic. Government of India under Ministry or Science and technology in collaboration with Google has started a plan to spread and stop fake news. One person posts a picture of a woman and the picture says that the woman is being molested with a caption describing about the incident in recent say 2018 in XYZ tragedy. To check the credibility of the news open google in your phones/tablet/laptops > go for "GOOGLE REVERSE IMAGE RESEARCH" >UPLOAD THAT PARTICULAR PICTURE ON THE GOOGLE, the related content will be displayed. To check the exact news, time of the news and it's credibility, opt for Time customize option in Google say for year 2014. The related content will be displayed on screen, for this you might have to search 3-4 pages on Google.
To be on a safer side Government of India has shortlisted few news websites to with zero fake news:
- Internews
- FirstDraft
- Storyful
- Boom
- Altnews
- Dataleads
Similar is with the video, take a snapshot of a particular scene upload it on 'YOUTUBE DATA VIEWER or In Vid(you can directly search it on Google) and get the real news with the same process. To know more about that video you can search about that particular image on 'METAPICZ' or on 'JEFFREY'S IMAGE METDATA VIEWER' to get the detail of camera from which the video was shot.
Fake news can also be judged by carefully analyzing the logo, advertisement, byline, reading 'ABOUT PAGE', date and disclaimer of the particular website.
With the help of these few simple steps the authenticity of the news can be checked and we can prevent alot of mishaps. Fake news is a big challenge for common people and even for journalist these are the tools which can help to fight against it.
Useful informations Jeevesh; to common users as well professionals.
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