Fake news
The truth in simplest form is a sentence or phrase you tell someone that is the honest most reliable source or saying that can be told, to me that's what truth means. However in our society today we have been caught up in fake news more than anything, fake news is everywhere you look. So the question is, “Why does everyone like fake news?” Is it just that much better than the truth?
How I think of the crucible being a source of fake news is somewhat hard to explain. In the crucible Abigail had an affair with proctor. However Elizabeth, proctor’s wife wants proctor to confront Abigail of fraud. She wants John proctor to make a lie. Sooner or later proctor agrees to sign a confession but he refuses to do so for anyone but himself because he said “all I have is my name”. See fake news keeps everyone on their toes, because everyone wants to see who they can blame for something else. Even the people who really done it just wanted to blame other people just so they would not get hung. Proctor done the right thing. In this world all you have is your name and your name means more than anything. You want people to remember you by your name, Knowing that you are truthful and not a lair.
In today's society we have fake news everywhere, for example just the other day I was looking online and according to https://www.snopes.com/category/facts/fake-news/ , they said donald trump was banning schools to take care of the school shootings. If you ask me that's crazy. Most people believe fake news because that's just what they want to hear and because of the person that is saying the fake news. According to the entertainment web site 8shit.net, President Donald Trump had a more outlandish solution. The site published an article on 23 February that President Trump’s plan to stop school shootings was to ban schools altogether. If someone believes that Trump our president, is going to ban schools to end school shootings they are crazy. However im sure some people have believed this, but in the real world that would not happen. It is just fake news wanting to get people excited and driven for people to read their post.
I have a lot of personal thoughts on fake news, i'm not talking about actual news like stuff, it can be anything that is being told that is fake and not correct information given. One of the biggest reasons I think people like fake news is so that they can hear and laugh at the people telling the fake news. More and more people catch on to the fake news that's given everyday, but what makes it so good? Personally I believe the majority of people just want to hear the fake news, instead of the real correct truth, because who knows the fake news being told can sound better than the truth and that's why people like it, but they need to realize it's doing nothing but making them look bad and get laughed at. The majority of people want to hear fake news over real news because it sounds better than real news, but is it really doing them any good? No. Fake news needs to stop before we start telling to much fake stuff that can lead to real stuff that can help terrorist.
To conclude my information on fake news, out of the three examples I gave, the crucible and fake news, real life and fake news, and my personal thoughts on fake news, I like my personal thoughts the best. Some do not understand what fake news can do to us and some understand it but do it anyways. It can and will hurt our society if we let it get to a bigger problem than it is now, for example it can lead to letting terrorist in on some of our news, even though its fake it could help them. Overall I personally think fake news is told and liked because it is what people want to hear, they just simply don't want hear the truth.
