Fake news spreads around us rapidly, and if it takes off it can be very dangerous. An example of fake news could be pizzagate. In 2016 rumors got started that a pizzeria Comet Ping Pong was sex trafficking children. Not only that but abusing then, murdering them, eating, and even using them for satanic rituals. Sadly, although sex trafficking happens, how someone got it in their mind that this pizzeria was involved there is no evidence.
This theory took off on social media like wildfire, and a man named Edgar Maddison Welch was so convinced he walked into the establishment with a gun trying to save children. Luckily, there was no children to save. This one example is how fake news on social media or any platform if spread can get out of hand quickly and could cause harm.
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