4/13/2020 0 Comments Fake News:Corona Virus The world hasn’t experienced six months during the year of 2020 and there’s been a lot of uproar. Trump basically offers an invitation for war with Iran, the legendary basketball player Kobe Bryant passes away and now there’s a world changing virus called Covid-19(coronavirus). This virus has caused businesses, schools, jobs, vacations and other exciting daily routines to completely stop. What hasn’t seemed to pause its existence, is fake news. It’s nothing new to the ear but it is always shocking to see just how low people will go. Many writers will do anything to get their content out on the media for the world to see. Why? Because business is business.
With Covid-19 going around, it is a good opportunity to pass out fake news. On social media platforms, viewers can definitely find a lot of stories about this virus. Although most of these stories may seem credible , they are not. There are news articles stating that this virus is issued out by the government to keep citizens inside to test 5g towers. Other stories include that this was all a set up to get the Earth back to its normal functions or the virus is just the flu with more “punch.” Now am I saying that all of these things aren’t POSSIBLY true? No, what I am saying is this-you can’t believe everything until you have the facts. In a recent article titled, “THE CORONAVIRUS FAKE-NEWS PANDEMIC IS VERY REAL,” spoke exactly on what its title says: fake news. One of the things that stood out to me the most was when the writer, Caleb Ecarma spoke on President Donald Trump’s false claims about the virus. Ecarma listed some of the false statements Trump has stated to the news such as the virus dying in hotter weather and the virus cases going down in America. LIES! While on Facebook, I encountered information where Donald Trump had said that this pandemic would be over by April. Maybe I’m a little tired but Mr.President seems to be wrong about the date seeing that it is April 13. With all of this fake news floating around on almost every media platform known, it’s hard to know what is real. News channels are even posting false deaths on live television by using pictures of people who hadn’t died from the virus. All of this causes people to become even more scared for their lives. When a vaccine is found to treat this virus, there will be those who will not get it due to the news reports they’ve seen. Apparently, if you get the vaccine you will be chipped so that the government can help keep track of you. Once again, no one knows if this is completely true until we have all of the facts. One of the best things to do, is to stick with more credible sites that can be trusted. The only problem with that is wondering if the news that’s being provided is real or not...
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