Tuesday, 3 January 2017

The pedlars of fake news are corroding democracy #31


The pedlars of fake news are corroding democracy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/25/pedlars-fake-news-corroding-democracy-social-networks

A Facebook logo is reflected on a tablet.

This article talks about how most grown-ups get their news from Facebook and that there ought to be laws to consider the informal organizations responsible. The article starts by saying that the most essential question around 2016 is not why the Brexit result and Trump happened but rather if students of history will view both as coincidental; whether these occasions will go down as the year popular government uncovered itself unworkable in the age of the web - in which reality at last offered approach to "alt - reality".

I believe that with the improvement of the computerized age we as the article states have ended up familiarize to getting our news online especially by means of web-based social networking which is the reason the quantity of grown-ups in the USA getting the news along these lines is so high, with Britain said to take after.

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