Fake news is defined as, "false news stories, often of a sensational nature, created to be widely shared online for the purpose of generating ad revenue via web traffic or discrediting a public figure, political movement, company, etc.," according to Madison College Libraries. The major problem with fake news, besides it being wrong in general, is that it can be extremely convincing. The authors of fake news stories know exactly how to grasp the viewers attention. I have found both hyperboles and imagery to be very powerful rhetoric strategies many fake news sites use to manipulate it's audience. Although separating ourselves from the rhetorical strategies used by these authors can be difficult, we can balance what we believe by finding credible sources, rather than random sources found using a search engine, and by doing further research over the topic from other different but still trustworthy sources.
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