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Weaver: Special Edition dedicated to ASPAM




                          Innovative ways to



                                curb fake news


                                             By Mehak Reji, ASPAM

                          Effect of fake news and innovative ways to curb it

                        “You can only blame fake news so many times before the truth starts to emerge from the
                                                         newsprint.”
                                                    ― Anthony T. Hincks



                    We produce and change what we intercept from news, making it more comical
                    to  understand.  Humans  as  it  are  in  our  nature  when  finding  something
                    extraordinary we want to make that idea our own, so we change up a few miniscule
                    things and we republish the idea. This cycle goes on and creating a sort of spiral
                    which when trying to get out of only makes the spiral go on ripping you along with
                    it. Fake news has its place in the society as it is not uncommon, it changes our
                    grasp  of  the  world  we  live  in,  and  it  affects  the  political,  media  and  national
                    security.

                    Fake  news  gets  people  believing           “Facebook”  has  taken  these  issues
                    rumors or lies about a subject. We all        into account and promised to act on
                    play  a  role  in  this  vicious  subject,    it.
                    when seeing a post or an idea without         Ways  with  which  we  can  curb  fake
                    double checking we get overwhelmed            news:
                    and share or like it adding a few more           •  Social media influencers before
                    stones into this destructible  cause.  It           sharing an idea or republishing
                    is  almost  unbelievable  how  real  fake           it,check   more     about    the
                    news  can  be  seen  as,  an  official
                    statement can deceive you to thinking               history, about the idea like for
                    it  is  the  real  stuff  and  we  are  so          example  its  editor,  which
                    persuaded  by  the  graphics  or  the               company was it published from
                    visual  of  how  modernizedthat  we                 and whether the company has a
                    believe  it.  Fake  news  behaves  like  a          history    of    publishing    it.
                    virus; it spreads faster that real news
                                                                        Although it may take up some
                    going  from  host  to  host  and  further           time,  the  influencers  will  be
                    on. Fake news is so often thought of
                                                                        valued by their viewers. It’s like
                    as real news that they cause riots and
                    social media sites are the sort of bay              a give and take relationship.
                    forthis.  Several  media  sites  such  as
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