Order and Recommend Food to Your Friends on Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nDid Fake News Sites Impact the US Election?
\n<\/strong>The answer is, to quote a Facebook relationship status: \u201cIt\u2019s complicated.\u201d Mark Zuckerberg claims that Facebook didn\u2019t have an impact on the outcome of the election, despite the fact that a large number of users (almost half) consume all of their news on Facebook. To ignore that, along with the rise in popularity of fake news sites on Facebook, is absurd. There are also many valid criticisms as to how major news networks handled the election. To ignore their impact on the election, and their lack of real news coverage, would also be absurd.<\/p>\nNonetheless, these are only contributing factors in a much larger issue: a lack of education and critical thinking skills. With well-developed critical thinking skills, individuals can evaluate a variety of news sources, fact-check them on their own, and draw their own conclusions, as opposed to solely seeking out sources that confirm their existing beliefs or suspicions.<\/p>\n
How to Address Fake News
\n<\/strong>Recently, Facebook and Google have vowed to crack down on fake news sites by banning them from their advertising network. Of course, this should help, but it is not enough. If Facebook and Google want to discourage the spread of fake news, then they need to make more of an effort. One option is for both sites to list whether or not an article is verified. While this is a great idea in theory, it might not change the minds of those who distrust mainstream media, the Internet in general, and online journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The social networking site has received a lot of criticism recently for its encouragement of fake news sources \u2014 sources that may have influenced the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3970,3973,3976],"class_list":["post-6300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","tag-algorithm","tag-facebooks-trending","tag-fake-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19229,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300\/revisions\/19229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}