Fake news is explained as “stories and hoaxes created to deliberately misinform or deceive readers” by Webwise. It was not a common idea or word used until the President Trump made it popular by using the phrase to dismiss opinions and facts he disagreed with. A common rhetorical strategy used to deceive are clickbait: catchy headlines to grab the reader's attention without regard to the accuracy of the story. They usually come in the form of ads on web pages but can be found in more diverse form as well. For example, YouTube vloggers will often post a new video with an attention getting title that has little to no correlation to the actual content of the video. In a recent trend of vloggers sharing personal stories, some would go overboard with titles such as “The Time I got Kidnapped,” when in reality they simply got lost in a supermarket as a child. Fake news does not necessarily have to be political there are different ways to misinform people and using clickbait is a very common one.
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https://www.webwise.ie/teachers/what-is-fake-news/
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