With each including several subcategories many spectacular styles are on show including majestic handlebars and swirling whiskers as competitors battle it out to become facial fuzz kings. You are watching news all michael okun will be back with more news at the top of the hour stay tuned for shift living in the digital age with a look at fake news in the election thats coming up after the break well see you. Carefully. To. Discover the. Subscribe to the documentary. The. Rest false the fear manipulated wallets and the Worlds Largest democratic election in india it played a huge pop how can fake news spread so easily who creates it and how can we stop it thats our topic today. With 900000000. 00 voters india is the Worlds Largest democracy and the run up to the 29000. 00 election fake news about sitting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He and
his b j p party flooded social media like. You know go to claires Narendra Modi to be the best Prime Minister in the world the picture is real the he
his b j p party flooded social media like. you know go to claire s narendra modi to be the best prime minister in the world the picture is real the headline is pure fiction these stoss support the b j p really it turns out the writings on their scarves was photo shopped or this crowd of mostly supporters it looks vast but it was just a photo montage the problem isn t just in india social media is full of fake news and the worst part is this is where uses get most of the information. some 300000000 indians use facebook more people than in any other country shop owner ram shankar right for example spends about 2 hours each day on social media reading up on news and this year s election. when i watch news i obviously consider it to be true news is so popular in india how can i consider it false. but
depict what they claim to show and if they ve been used in the correct context we check if the text accompanying the image actually fits the picture. just. the software for instance quickly detected that this picture of a brutal police crackdown 1st appeared online in 2011 it was the original taken during egypt s tahrir square protests the software also flags when images are shared online again at a later time in 2013 for example a twitter user from venezuela. the image and falsely claimed it depicted protests in his home country this is it the picture was removed from its original context the purpose of this was to generate the impression of a reality that never existed. the researchers want to build a software that everyone can use to check the authenticity of an image with just a single click. much work still lies ahead however as the software is still in its early stages even so all of us can do our part to uncover fake news 1st
content this lead unsuspecting social media users to the macedonian fake news sites as more and more users visit it decides google increases its advertising which in turn meant the students earned more ad revenue. the fake news gold rush was kicked off by businessman. he gives online marketing courses and says he accidentally helped donald trump win the u.s. presidential election. purely motivated by money. and. more and more political news. at 1.140 fake news websites were registered
advertising revenues in fact many people in the north macedonian town of valis got rich producing fake news in the 2016 u.s. presidential race. france s shock s world endorses donald trump for president clinton e-mails linked to political paedophile sex ring. fake news stories like these were produced by a group of students from north macedonia during the u.s. presidential race and 2016 they were based in the city of venice which underwent major deindustrialization after the disintegration of yugoslavia many factories shut down and unemployment was high so creating fake news presented a great opportunity. to make some fast cash how step one create a website and a facebook profile with a catchy name start posting plagiarized stories with sensational headlines step to create by fake facebook accounts and use them to share links to dubious fake news