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Fake News and its Consumptions
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Fake News and its Consumptions
Introduction
Accessing new and catchy articles online has, over the years, been changing due to
technological advancement. Social media has taken over the internet fraternity and has become
the major access to global and local news. Various recent research shows that Facebook has
completely dominated the online platforms and is the most preferred digital media among young
people to access the news. Similar social media is being used in communicating fake news,
which misinforms society, specifically the young generations (Baptista & Gradim, 2020). This
report will focus on exploring fake news and why it is so persuasive, and the factors contributing
to its spreadability. It will enable understanding of the digital mechanisms promoting fake news
proliferation and its structural role in dissemination rapidity based on the motivation factors
among the fake news consumptions and sharing (Yariv-Tsfati et al., 2020).
Fake news can be understood as the news that misinforms consumers about a particular
phenomenon as it lacks truth in it. A two-dimensional phenomenon mainly characterizes it as a
genre and a level (Jana & Sophie, 2019). As a genre, it deliberates the creation and pseudo-
journalistic disinformation, while at a level, it encompasses political instruments delegitimizing
media news. The term fake news is also operationalized as disinformation, mainly concerned
with purposive and intentional information spread to mislead people. It can be operationalized,
and misinformation is unintentional due to various factors such as negligence, ignorance, and
human error, but inadvertently mislead people (Jana & Sophie, 2019). These are significant
factors affected and contributed by the dynamics of social media contributing to multiple spread
of the disinforming news. It is mainly intended to play with the general public psychological
Fake News and its Consumptions
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Referencing & Citations (APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago)
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Fake News and its Consumptions
Introduction
Accessing new and catchy articles online has, over the years, been changing due to
technological advancement. Social media has taken over the internet fraternity and has become
the major access to global and local news. Various recent research shows that Facebook has
completely dominated the online platforms and is the most preferred digital media among young
people to access the news. Similar social media is being used in communicating fake news,
which misinforms society, specifically the young generations (Baptista & Gradim, 2020). This
report will focus on exploring fake news and why it is so persuasive, and the factors contributing
to its spreadability. It will enable understanding of the digital mechanisms promoting fake news
proliferation and its structural role in dissemination rapidity based on the motivation factors
among the fake news consumptions and sharing (Yariv-Tsfati et al., 2020).
Fake news can be understood as the news that misinforms consumers about a particular
phenomenon as it lacks truth in it. A two-dimensional phenomenon mainly characterizes it as a
genre and a level (Jana & Sophie, 2019). As a genre, it deliberates the creation and pseudo-
journalistic disinformation, while at a level, it encompasses political instruments delegitimizing
media news. The term fake news is also operationalized as disinformation, mainly concerned
with purposive and intentional information spread to mislead people. It can be operationalized,
and misinformation is unintentional due to various factors such as negligence, ignorance, and
human error, but inadvertently mislead people (Jana & Sophie, 2019). These are significant
factors affected and contributed by the dynamics of social media contributing to multiple spread
of the disinforming news. It is mainly intended to play with the general public psychological
