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The Real Problem with Fake News
Erik Palmer
For years, as I checked out ∈ the grocery store, I saw Bat Boy on the pages of the Weekly World News. That "news" paper is I being printed, but weeklyworldnews.com ∃. According to an article posted on the site ∈January 2017, Earth was going to collide with the planet Nibiru on October 17, 2017. So I suppose if we were indeed obliterated, you aren't reading this article.
My point is that fake news is nothing new. Weekly World News started ∈1979, the popular news satire organization The Onion was founded ∈1988, and many other tabloids and websites had the similar idea of writing silly news stories for our amusement. No one thought this was real stuff. We all knew it was satire or farce. All of us, right? But how about a story claiming that Hillary Clinton sold weapons to ISIS? Is that fake news? Unlike the Bat Boy story, which is obviously (to most) silly, the Clinton story is part of a new generation of fake news with less benign motives than amusement.
It was the 2016 presidential election that brought this less benign type of fake news to everyone's attention. Some made-up stories were getting lots of attention, and some people were worried that the stories were being used to influence voters.
Since then, educators have responded to one of the alarms raised by fake news: the relatively easy problem of how to teach students to find the fakes. We have, however, largely ignored the more important and more difficult problem caused by fake news: how to limit skepticism of the media. For every person fooled by a fake story, there may be many more whose trust ∈ the media ∈ general is diminished. Discounting all news means discounting true news, too. And overwhelmingly, most news is true.
(Adapted from www.ascd.org)
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