The most common theme between
people who create fake news is the way they word their sentences. They word
them in a way that appeals to the audience and takes away from the fact that it
is fake news. For instance one type of rhetoric strategy people use is called
Ad baculum. The word itself is Latin for an appeal to force and it means
exactly that. When people are frustrated they tend to want to lash out so “threats
of force help to channel existing frustration & direct it at enemies” (Jonathan
Tilove). I never realized that even people like Donald trump use this strategy
in their everyday life. In fact a lot of people say using this strategy may have
been why he won his presidential campaign.
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