The Elusive Big Idea By Neal Gabler

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After reading The Elusive Big Idea by Neal Gabler social media pops up in your mind. Wondering thought goes in side of your mind about fake news on social media. Thinking about the future of fake news, Americans worry if fake news is getting out of hand, why are we getting confused, why do we not know what is real and fake when it comes to the news we see on FaceBook or another social media. What are the effect of fake news, when did fake news come upon the world, and how are we able to stop this after reading a article from Joshua Benton about Get serious about getting rid of fake news we are able to figure it out. Also will we able to know what is real news and what is fake news. As centuries comes upon us will fake news expands to a horrible …show more content…

“ About two-in-three U.S adults says fabricated news stories causes great deals of confusion about basic facts of current issues and events” (Barthel, Mitchell, Holcomb). So they basically do not know if the basic facts is something to believe in or if they should just not pay it any attention. This affect is caused from different categories as in incomes, eduction levels, races this may all play a factor in their confusion. If you make “30,000 or less a year they say fake news causes a great deal of confusion” (Barthel, Mitchell, Holcomb) so why is that? So is it better to have a lower eduction and a lower paying job to understand fake news and be less confused. Because although the Americans that are making 30,000 a year are at 58% confused, while those whom makes 75,000 a year are at 73% confused. So why is it that the less money you make the less you will be confused of fake news ? Probably because they are high school, college students, which on their free time they are able to be on social media more than the high paid class. “we sought not just to apprehend the world but to truly comprehend it” (Gabler 479). American really do not know enough so they are having more …show more content…

So how and when will they step in to help stop fake news from taken over the Internet. Because all it is causing is people to take information the wrong way or believe in information that is false. Fake news is able to have a big impact on someone life, career and legacy. Having mis-leading information isn’t good for anyone. As the world improves so does everything, old thing dies off and new things takes off. The worlds number one app Facebook is trying to get rid of fake news, even though you may think they are a huge reason why fake news still here today. Which is correct, Facebook “ is driven by ideology, purely by the economic incentive structure” (Benton). What the people want to see the people will get it. Facebook drives off of humans, so to keep the #1 app being at the top they will keep it interesting. So how is Facebook able to fix this problem? “ hire editors to manage what shows up in its trending section”(Benton) doing so it will help cut down on fake news pooping up on the news feed. “ hiring a team of journalist and charge them with separating at least the worst of the fake news from the stream”(Benton), this will also cut down on fake news from showing up. There are many of way to get rid of fake

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