the tiniest fib in news can start the
greatest of movements there’s a quote by
Winston Churchill a lie travels halfway
around the world before a truth gets a
chance to get its pants off you know
it’s quite funny but true I like to
relate my topic back to a childhood game
I’m sure you’ve all played at least once
just for fun it’s when you whisper a
message into your friend’s ear and your
friend was visit to the next person the
next person and the next until the last
person says the message out loud and the
fun is how the message changes to make a
completely different message that’s
exactly what happens in today’s world of
news many false horrible and interesting
stories have been spread around by the
press you may believe that the news is
correct this is probably because you
have grown up thinking the news always
provides true facts this has in fact
created confusion in the professional
world – my uncle is a renowned drone
photographer and he found a shocking
news article online drone breaks top
wing of a flying airplane bringing the
plane crashing down after getting
panicked about his own drone flights he
confirmed using the latest technology
that we all have access to and that the
news was false and photoshopped it
turned out to be only someone’s
imagination there was even a video
online proving how the picture was
photoshopped this reflects the obvious
fact that we can also decipher the false
from the legitimate nowadays digital
digital posts or uploads are set to
travel faster than light technology has
skyrocketed in the last century so
social media has a large impact on how
quickly news spreads and reaches
different people this increases the
chance for fast news becoming viral this
means that we can
what to spread around and what to delete
how fast something spreads online is up
to us fake or true people will listen to
it believe it and feel its impact on
their life but how to tell the
difference between the false and true
news the best way in my opinion is to
check your source well known well then
it’s more likely to be true however you
could also type the headline up on the
web if there are many similar reports
about it at least one being from a
newspaper you know you trust it’s most
likely to be trustworthy you may be
wondering why do publishers post fake
news
possibly to make a viral to get
attention to create the buzz and become
famous this is what makes the media edit
the news the way they imagined it
happened to make or break has become
only a few words away nevertheless you
can also find reliable newspapers and
reporters that ensure that the truth
gets out for example a Pulitzer
prize-winning reporter for the New York
Times
James risin this gentleman discovered
some illegal activity of the NSA and
anonymously had it published in the
newspaper
he was obviously under a lot of
government suspicion and had to keep a
low profile he believed that we had the
right to know a truth and not alive this
means that we can also control what to
do and what not to do what to believe
and what not to believe similar to him
so for the wrong being this is our
society’s current problem though it can
also be used for the better good it
isn’t always necessary to call fake news
a problem as it can be embraced in a
positive way crazy huh believe it or not
big news is also helpful in many ways
people have been previously aware of
this problem and thanks to this people
have begun raising their critical
analysis and thinking skills due to the
simple fact that they’re afraid to look
like a fool for believing a lie did you
know that a psychologist has stated that
a little fake news can
good for you this is proven to be true
by not only the race it brings a human
awareness but the decrease it brings in
human alertness which is where fake news
comes in I have also discovered that the
way the world is evolving fake news
helps censor what could be dangerous to
reveal some things such as the harsh
reality of humanity’s problems the harsh
reality of humanity’s sufferings if we
release this people could be people
could be suffocating of shock and heart
attacks which is a symptom of shock an
average of more than a million heart
attacks are recorded every year and
adding this extra bit of shock may only
increase these digits I believe that
even though fake news is considered a
danger it can be looked at both ways
it’s our right to react on news once
you’ve confirmed its authenticity
we shouldn’t fall prey to such
imaginative stories my idea about the
current situation is the news isn’t
there to tell you what happened it’s
there to tell you what it wants you to
hear or what thinks you want to hear if
we all help each other correct our
thoughts and try not to feel the urge to
create drama all the time maybe this
world could have a light at the end of
the tunnel where we know what we have
read is nothing but true imagine not
having to feel the need to double-check
what we think we already know all the
time as mentioned by Arthur Miller a
good newspaper I suppose is a nation
talking to itself share correct music
one another and keep creating evidence
online to help wipe out misleading
stories thank you
[Applause]
greatest of movements there’s a quote by
Winston Churchill a lie travels halfway
around the world before a truth gets a
chance to get its pants off you know
it’s quite funny but true I like to
relate my topic back to a childhood game
I’m sure you’ve all played at least once
just for fun it’s when you whisper a
message into your friend’s ear and your
friend was visit to the next person the
next person and the next until the last
person says the message out loud and the
fun is how the message changes to make a
completely different message that’s
exactly what happens in today’s world of
news many false horrible and interesting
stories have been spread around by the
press you may believe that the news is
correct this is probably because you
have grown up thinking the news always
provides true facts this has in fact
created confusion in the professional
world – my uncle is a renowned drone
photographer and he found a shocking
news article online drone breaks top
wing of a flying airplane bringing the
plane crashing down after getting
panicked about his own drone flights he
confirmed using the latest technology
that we all have access to and that the
news was false and photoshopped it
turned out to be only someone’s
imagination there was even a video
online proving how the picture was
photoshopped this reflects the obvious
fact that we can also decipher the false
from the legitimate nowadays digital
digital posts or uploads are set to
travel faster than light technology has
skyrocketed in the last century so
social media has a large impact on how
quickly news spreads and reaches
different people this increases the
chance for fast news becoming viral this
means that we can
what to spread around and what to delete
how fast something spreads online is up
to us fake or true people will listen to
it believe it and feel its impact on
their life but how to tell the
difference between the false and true
news the best way in my opinion is to
check your source well known well then
it’s more likely to be true however you
could also type the headline up on the
web if there are many similar reports
about it at least one being from a
newspaper you know you trust it’s most
likely to be trustworthy you may be
wondering why do publishers post fake
news
possibly to make a viral to get
attention to create the buzz and become
famous this is what makes the media edit
the news the way they imagined it
happened to make or break has become
only a few words away nevertheless you
can also find reliable newspapers and
reporters that ensure that the truth
gets out for example a Pulitzer
prize-winning reporter for the New York
Times
James risin this gentleman discovered
some illegal activity of the NSA and
anonymously had it published in the
newspaper
he was obviously under a lot of
government suspicion and had to keep a
low profile he believed that we had the
right to know a truth and not alive this
means that we can also control what to
do and what not to do what to believe
and what not to believe similar to him
so for the wrong being this is our
society’s current problem though it can
also be used for the better good it
isn’t always necessary to call fake news
a problem as it can be embraced in a
positive way crazy huh believe it or not
big news is also helpful in many ways
people have been previously aware of
this problem and thanks to this people
have begun raising their critical
analysis and thinking skills due to the
simple fact that they’re afraid to look
like a fool for believing a lie did you
know that a psychologist has stated that
a little fake news can
good for you this is proven to be true
by not only the race it brings a human
awareness but the decrease it brings in
human alertness which is where fake news
comes in I have also discovered that the
way the world is evolving fake news
helps censor what could be dangerous to
reveal some things such as the harsh
reality of humanity’s problems the harsh
reality of humanity’s sufferings if we
release this people could be people
could be suffocating of shock and heart
attacks which is a symptom of shock an
average of more than a million heart
attacks are recorded every year and
adding this extra bit of shock may only
increase these digits I believe that
even though fake news is considered a
danger it can be looked at both ways
it’s our right to react on news once
you’ve confirmed its authenticity
we shouldn’t fall prey to such
imaginative stories my idea about the
current situation is the news isn’t
there to tell you what happened it’s
there to tell you what it wants you to
hear or what thinks you want to hear if
we all help each other correct our
thoughts and try not to feel the urge to
create drama all the time maybe this
world could have a light at the end of
the tunnel where we know what we have
read is nothing but true imagine not
having to feel the need to double-check
what we think we already know all the
time as mentioned by Arthur Miller a
good newspaper I suppose is a nation
talking to itself share correct music
one another and keep creating evidence
online to help wipe out misleading
stories thank you
[Applause]
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