How Fake News Affects my Life

Honestly, fake news doesn’t completely affect my life. I’m not persuaded by any articles

I read on Facebook made by a site I’ve never even heard of. The problem is when other people

are persuaded and then rise as a mass, totally believing something false. I personally believe that

making fake news sites is wrong. The whole idea is somewhat flawed anyway. If gullible people

here in the U.S. would just stop clicking on ads or misleading titles, we wouldn’t even have this

problem. But at the same time, I think the social media sites that these articles are posted on

should have stricter standards on what can and can’t be posted. I also think that there should be a

filter that kind of looks into a website when you go to share it, but I doubt it would block

everything. On the other side of things, I understand that these people need to make an income

and support their families. As the fake news creator in the video said, he’s made more at twenty-

two than most people from there would make in a lifetime. It’s just a moral dilemma, really. Is

doing something wrong really worth the money? Some of these people could have made the

same amount of money by striving for excellence when they were younger. Instead of thinking

up creative articles about Donald Trump, they could’ve focused on getting out of the country to a

land with better opportunities.

Fake news doesn’t really affect me on its own. All the other people that think it’s true,

that’s when it starts to affect me. It can sway an election, or ruin an entire industry. Things like

this wouldn’t happen if there were more common sense floating around.