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FAKE NEWS



The term was popularised mostly by Donald Trump in order to dismiss all negative press about himself. 
It may not seem as harmful as it actually is, 'fake news' are thought to have an impact on the recent USA president election and brexit. Due to anyone being able to create an online platform and post almost anything they want 'fake news' has become worse than ever. It's very easy to make up a scandalous story and photoshop a picture, post it and see what happens. Sadly a lot of people fall for these stories and they don't even bother to check if the sources are credible and are there more articles about the story. This blind trust in everything that a person reads on the internet can lead to people not voting or push someone who hasn't decided who they want to vote for yet to one side or the other. 
Although, sometimes it can be fun to mess with people who are naive enough to believe the most ridiculous stories. That's exactly what one of Lithuanian comedians and influencers Oleg Surajev does. He has created an online platform called 1K.lt where he and his team uploads fake horoscopes and fake news stories. This one [x] is about drugs getting more expensive and less effective and that our government will try to stop the prices from rising. Any person with common sense would think that no one would ever fall for a story like that, especially when the 'reporter' uses such words as 'shit' and most importantly because drugs are illegal so story about the government promising druggies to lower the prices could never be real. But because the rising prices after changing our currency to euro is a real and common topic some people actually fell for this and left their opinions in the comment section. All of his 'fake news'  stories have one thing in common - it's how relative they are to people at the moment, it targets the government, emigration and the economics but puts the topics in a very unlikely scenarios. By doing these stories he tries to spread awareness about the danger of fake news, he encourages people to do a simple google search and check the sources that the story comes from. And personally, I think that that's really funny and smart.
And probably because it's near impossible for me to come up with serious ideas, the first thing that poped into my head when I heard the assignment was fake news. But I'm aware that that has been done and that we can't make up the stories for this unit, I thought about the show where the fake news stories could be debunked. One of ideas I had for an OB/VOX pop, was geting 2 real news headlines and one fake and asking people to guess which is the fake one. 
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