Fake Facebook!

Fake news on Facebook is always getting shared and is just gaining more and more attention. “Misinformation is part of an online economy that weaponizes social media to profit from our clicks and attention.” A video of a plane doing a 360-degree and then safely landing went completely viral on Facebook with more than 14 million views. Come to find out this video was actually falsely put together, “Aristomenis Tsirbas, a Los Angeles-based director, made the computer-generated video of a plane doing a 360”. His work was taken and then made into this fake news. This article gives some great advice to how to catch fake news. One, check the URL for misspelling or extra letters. Two, check photos for Photoshop or if it looks realistic. Three,  

check other sources to confirm the information. Four, there are now chrome apps you can download that will check it for you and either tell you if it is verified or unverified.  

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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/18/i-fell-facebook-fake-news-heres-why-millions-you-did-too/?utm_term=.abecf48787d0