Fake News. This is a piece of information that is not true but sent out to the members of the public possibly to cause confusion and problems. Fake News is a deceit meant to be taking as correct and true whereas it not true and baseless.

Fake News has been in existence for long and it's impact on the society is destruction and retrogression and definitely to bring people or something down . It is entirely destructive and can cause untold hardships on the people , organisation , Government and what have you.

Fake News is Pernicious in nature. Let me cite one or two cases to butress my stand. A very important Politician was reportedly claimed that he was dead and the information was reported by the media. The News went viral and many People were shock on the report of the death of this Personality. Not Quite few minutes after the News went viral then some people based on that report formed themselves into a committee to oversee the burial . Many People somewhere else were crying and hugely mourning the passing away of the well known personality. The saddest aspect of it is that the News was later on debunked and person who was declared dead spoke on the hospital bed that he was still alive.

Another fake News was disseminated when I was very young. An election was conducted and before the body charged to oversee the conduct of the election could announce the election results , Some Radio Stations had started announcing the results not actually right and there were jubilations in some parts of the region and sadness in some other areas. The in-thing about that fake results was that those candidates whose names were mentioned to have won were not popular candidates and that they were in minority , in fact , that fake results as announced triggered out violence of unimaginable proportion that cannot be controlled. Through this , many houses were burnt beyond recognition and many lives were lost and this brought catastrophic destruction to the region before the Electoral board charged to announce the results came out to give the genuine results to People.

Fake News always emanates from wrong sources and whose Authorities were questionable and invalid. The intention of those spreading fake News is always not clear. Some actually spreading fake News to give impression that we were in the knowing and that we are the oracle who is in charge of the thing in question. Whereas you are only acting in isolation. At times , the intention of the originator of the fake News was to cast aspersions on the integrity of the Personalities involved in the News. To bring him down to his kneels.

The evil agenda of the originator of the fake News is to spread misinformation, disinformation , and malinformation about the characters of the people in question. Without doubts fake news have negative impacts on the People and the Society.

Impacts Of Fake News On The Society And The People.

• Fake News is a killer that does great damage on the victims. Fake News brings out killer information that are not true and invalid on the people just in order to bring the victims down. A victim may be hypertensive in nature and consequently lead to cardiac arrest which may eventually lead to the death of the victim . It is always good to originate good news and subsequently spread it. Then it is actually bad to originate what you know is bad and incorrect.

• The impact of fake news on the society is that it is misleading to engage in fake news. When misleading information is given it leads society astray and cause untold hardships on the society. Misleading information is actually killing too . It gives and creates false impression on the society. It makes society to pursue wrong things at the right time just in order to cause confusion.

• Fake News at times emanates from the Social Media before it is debunked. Do you know that People these days don't actually Believe News from the Social Media any longer. It means that the integrity of the Social Media News is questionable and it is doubted. In fact , the social media is always awash with unverified information and issues that cannot stand the test of time.

• Fake News is associated with rumours that are not true. Some People had one time or the order suffer bad impacts of fake News and be a victim of pernicious rumours. It will be extremely painful to read the News of one's death on the media when one is actually alive.

• The issue of fake news can be extremely dangerous. This is because the spontaneous reactions of people to news is always very high and unpredictable. It can bring panic and instability into the community and cause hullabaloo in the lives of the people.

In Conclusion :

• Don't ever originates what you are not sure of and at the same time , don't spread unverified information about what you don't know.

• Desist from being a harbinger of bad News. Always tread softly softly. Stop being a carrier of bad News. It is always a source of destruction on the society.

• Verify your source very well before embarking on the spread of certain information.

• Governments at various levels of governance should Endeavours to enact laws capable of bringing perpetrators of fake news to book. They should be made to face the music.

It is Always Good To be On the Side Of the truth. Be part and parcel of good things of Life.

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