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• fake news are false stories that appears to be new, spread on the internet or using other social media platforms.
• fake news is usually created to influence political views or as a joke
• false information-news, stories,hoaxes created to deliberately misinform or deceive readers
• three forms of false information are misinformation, disinformation, malinformation
• misinformation is generally used to refer to a inaccurate information distributed WITHOUT malicious intent
• disinformation are inaccurate information distributed and intended to confuse, mislead or influence
• malinformation are true or accurate information shared or manipulated with the intent to cause harm
• here are the ways to spot fake news :

  1. Consider the Source

  2. Read beyond the headline

  3. Cross-Check
• fabricated content are informations that is new, 100% false, designed to deceive and do harm
• imposter content is when genuine information are impersonated
• misleading content misleading use of information to frane an issue or individual
• satire parody-no intension to cause harm but has potential to fool
• false connection-when teh headlines, visuals and caption do not support the content
• false context when the genuine context is shared with false contextual information
• manipulated context when genuine information or imagery is manipulated to deceive