Fake News

          When reading news its hard to know when you come across a fake news article. We all get too caught up on what the headlines are and we base our perspective on the topic without even reading the rest of the article or checking to see if it is actually true. However, there is a website called snopes.com. This website is extremely useful because it shines a light on different articles for different sources that are all fake. For example one of the headlines that made it onto Snope, is "Nasa Warn's 'Planet X' Is Headed Straight For Earth?"
           There is no purpose of fake news. The reasons why its still being circulated through the internet is because many writers are paid big bucks to produce these, they are forced to fulfill a social agenda, and also to gain an advertising revenue.
           I know how I am when I read headlines, and I tend to believe everything I read. When I look back at it, It seems that everyone else does too. This just causes rumors and fake topics to be spread around and it causes everyone to panic or get excited when in reality it's gonna create a big outburst that could've been avoided by not even writing the article in the first place.


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