The average person spends up to 59 hours a week on the internet, for work, school, entertainment, and social media according to https://www.audacy.com/y98/news/how-many-hours-a-week-we-spend-on-the-internet. This is a lot of time, and during that time we are bombarded by content and news. In more recent years, the term, “fake news” is commonly used to describe content that is seen as untrue, fabricated, or misleading. Claire Wardle (pictured above) says this about that term:
I refuse to use this term, mostly because most of this content isn’t actually fake. We need people to understand that most of this content is old content that's recirculating or it is something that has a kernel of truth. It's actually much more effective to use genuine information and to weaponize it then it is to create completely fake content
The most harmful “fake news” is rooted in some aspect of truth. Next time you come across this “fake news” dig a bit deeper and you might find some truth beneath the harm.
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