The newly launched app is set to show news updates from every village in India, Dr Chandra said during the launch. He said that anyone nationwide can contribute to this app and become a journalist by providing hyper-local news from their villages or towns.
fake news. fake news, folks. a lot of fake. it s all fake news. fake news, two words we ve been hearing a lot lately. donald trump rails against fake news and the fake media almost every day. and there are times when a reputable news organization gets a story wrong, but that s actually just bad reporting and there s a difference. actual fake news stories are not only deceptive, they are designed to make money off of clicks online. that makes them very lucrative for the people behind them. fake news is everywhere. headlines like these are designed to lure you in even if it s a lie. with each click, fake news creators are raking in the bucks. the money starts to trickle in with as little as a fraction of a penny per click. that adds up fast if a fake news story becomes a viral sensation with thousands, even millions of shares and likes on social media platforms like facebook. which gets an estimated 1.8
who writes it. reporter: with fake news making real news headlines, secretary clinton calling it an epidemic, the pizza attack in washington, the obvious question is why do so many people turn to phony news sources? one answer to that can be found in newsrooms like ours. this fall, americans trusted mainstream media sources is at an all time low. do you trust the mainstream media? no. reporter: how you can tell when things are slanted and when they are not? you can t. i watch the mock news. reporter: are you getting better information from us at nbc news or last week tonight? last week tonight does not research and sometimes they are teaching me something. reporter: do you trust me? yes. reporter: you do? because you have glasses. reporter: distrust in media has emboldened fake news creators. this is your biggest election clicker. read that one. the motive behind the killing is being investigated but police
wrap their arms around. in fairness to facebook, this is not necessarily a problem solely of facebook s creating. if you look at polls from places like gallup, only 32% of americans trust the mainstream media, trust us. you know this better than anybody from standing in the press bin at countless donald trump rallies and hearing insults are hurled your way. i think as long as there s an appetite for news from sources other than places like us, facebook can do whatever they want. but again, you know, you ll talk to fake news creators and they ll say these folks will find a way around it. facebook is not going to whatever they do, they will not be able to stop all this news or fake news from getting out there, as hard as they try. it s not from facebook, you re absolutely right. they weren t the or begins of this. bitz been going on for decades. politician, mostly on the right, some on the left, de crying what they call the liberal media, refusing to take reporting from outlets they