WE’ve all heard/seen the Fake News Stories. Some of us learn they are fake. Some of us knew they were fake as soon as our eye touched them, or after we did a check with reliable sources. But, a pile of people absolutely believe them. Just as they believed the ‘Whitehouse Insider.” (This was a Blog created by a chap in Ireland which was anti-Obama, and posted the most ridiculous stuff).
To give you an example of how bad the Fake News is, and how many people believe the stories; last year a number of racist bloggers began sharing the ‘news’ that 19 white women had been murdered in Los Angeles by a black killer who carved “Black Lives Matter” on to their bodies.
Although the story was immediately kicked to the pavement as it was completely untrue, the hoax was shared more than 500,000 times on Facebook. People believed it.
In Canada, a few hours after the report that six people had been shot dead in a mosque, stories began appearing online blaming the massacre on Syrian refugees.
The police have said, again and again that the only suspect in the shooting is Alexandre Bissonnette, a white right wing Canadian who had been posting xenophobic comments online.
Yet, people prefer to believe that Muslims killed Muslims.
During the American Presidential Campaign, some guys in Macedonia decided to make a post saying that The Pope backed Donald Trump. They made it up. They admitted it. There is no doubt, they made it up. But people still believe that the Pope did endorse Trump. Despite the story having been, written by some guys who never left Macedonia, people want to believe it, so believe it.
In Britain, one of the major Brexit campaign groups got a lot of attention and support by claiming Turkey was about to join the European Union. This got the Brits very upset. This is because they believed this. Some people say, this inspired the Brexit vote.
Guess no one recalls that Turkey’s application to join the bloc has been sitting since 1987 and is unlikely to ever be approved.
The point is, people are really gullible.
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