This world is slowly coming to a media frenzy where there is so much information being spread that opinions and inaccurate statements are being shown in the frontline news, social media and news journals. We are subjected to the information that the media tries to program us to believe everyday. Years ago people got all their information from news channels and newspapers, but it wasn’t known to fact check their sources.This leaves me wondering what information is really real and is the news media fraud? It is true that the government controls what is put out there, but to what extent will they go to keep the citizens from the truth of the country and the globe. William Arkin, longtime NBC reporter and analyst states that, “So, to me, the crisis is that we condone perpetual war by virtue of our lack of reporting and investigation, and then, second, we fill the airwaves or we fill the newspapers with stories about the immediate and don’t give an adequate amount of space to deeper investigations or what I would say would be net assessment investigations of what really is going on”. Living in a country that puts more importance on military budgeting than the citizen’s well being is haunting alone. However, that shouldn’t stop the news media from covering all that is important that has to do with America.There should be more regulations added for the news media and outlets to express what we have the right to know and not only focus on the current problems, but of every problem.

Farhad Manjoo states that, “Late last year, Facebook outlined a modest effort to curb misinformation. News Feed would now carry warning labels: If a friend shares a viral story that has been flagged and shot down by one of Facebook’s fact-checking partners (including Snopes and PolitiFact), you’ll be cautioned that the piece has been ‘disputed’”. Being that I occasionally check my Facebook, I have noticed the implementation of “Fact Check” for certain links being posted. Most times Facebook will give you an explanation of why the link shouldn’t be shared as the truth. It is not as often that I see the “Fact Check” on Facebook, but the app is trying to change their ways of promoting the sharing of misleading information. The “fake news” concept was created by the repetitive misleading reality TV star, Donald Trump, which he would say against anything negative that was said about him in the media. “Fake News” gave the people an eye opener that there are facts and lies being programmed for us to ingest, we as a society should be more fierce about what we believe in even if it’s being televised or stated by a favorite celebrity. An idea of helping the “fake news” could be with implementing the AI to gather information all across the internet to make sure of it’s authenticity.

Do you think that AI could help collect the data to bring forth the facts of a topic?

Weekly News: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/us-election-news-10-23-2020/index.html