We live in a day of fake news. Anyone with a computer and Internet connection can more or less create content that, with some tinkering, can look like a real enough news site. This is causing some major problems though as individuals who do not check the source material may end up believing the fake news material.
Fake news started, or at least become popular, with “The Onion.” This “fake” news site is more or less the “Weekend News Update” from Saturday Night Live written by Harvard Graduates and done so with such outlandish titles that one would hope any reader could easily identify it as fake news.
However, some readers would take it as real news and share it on social media. With the drive to generate views, which can generate income for a curator of the site, a drive to produce over the top news stories developed. It came to a point over the last month with what is now being referred to as “#PizzaGate.”
You may recall an individual walking into a pizza parlor with a rifle and firing a shot into the ground. He later was arrested without incident, but he stated he went to the pizza parlor based on information he saw through a mass email leak.
The vast majority of news outlets pointed it out as an individual tricked by fake news. However, there is more fact than fiction involved with this “fake” news story, and there may be more news than what other outlets are reporting. Check out this investigation report video link to learn more about how real this story might be.
