There is fake news everywhere, and sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between real and “fake” news. The people who write these articles make it so that the reader believe that this news is right through many writing techniques. I looked up “fake news” and found an article “How To Spot Fake News”. It starts off by saying that “Not all misinformation being passed along online is complete fiction, though some of it is”(Keily and Robertson). I think this is important to take into consideration because not everything we read out there is completely false. I do believe that some of the misinformation is people who are writing and only showing their point of view over a certain topic without giving the other side credit. I believe that it starts to become fiction when the writer has no knowledge of the topic. The article that I used gives tips on how to spot fake news. One of the tips they said was to check the author, and the reason behind it is what sparked my interest in this particular tip. They stated “Another tell-tale sign of a fake story is often the byline.”(Keily and Robertson) They went on and gave an example about “Jimmy Rustling” and how he claimed he was at a higher level when he really wasn’t. “Well, his author page claims he is a “doctor” who won “fourteen Peabody awards and a handful of Pulitzer Prizes.”(Keily and Robertson). They later went on to basically explain that when they looked him up he didn’t have any of those titles to his name.
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