STOP SPREADING FAKE NEW !!! | 3 ways to differentiate between FAKE and REAL NEWS| WhatsApp FAKE NEWS

In India, since the last two to three years, the presence of us in the different social media platforms have increased and this has many reasons but the most important one is, JIO coming into the market after which each and every person got the opportunity to connect to the Internet at low prices. And this did not stop here, it forced the other ISPs to lower down their rates which as a result helped in digitalising the nation.

With the increase in the use of the Internet, social media platforms got a huge number of peoples. And along with this, fake news started conquering the market which generally spread through various social media platforms and the one which had a huge role was WhatsApp which became a path for the spreading of these fake news. In the initial period, people generally didn't bother about them but gradually it became a big issue that often resulted in various problems.


There is a lot of fake news revolving in the social media platforms and people without knowing the actual fact, just forwards them to some other people or group that helps the fake new become viral across the internet. Nowadays, everywhere around the world, this fake news has become a very important matter to talk on. You must have seen various ads related to this fake news on the various TV channels, telling and making people understand the impact of forwarding any kind of fake news. According to conversant people, certain fake news can also affect political activities including elections.

Certain fake news made against a political party can manipulate the minds of people and can give rise to a feeling of hatred in their minds for that political party. And in a country like India where we follow the Multi-party system and have several different political parties, it becomes really hard for a party leader to wash out the wrong claims that have been put on his party due to fake news.

HOW to DIFFERENTIATE between FAKE and REAL NEWS?

Now the question arises that how to differentiate between a fake and a real news. Now, this is very easy, you just need to have an idea and understanding. It becomes even easier if you follow these steps:-

• Check the website Name/Domain/URL:- Whenever you get a link of a news website from someone on WhatsApp or any other social media platform, take a while to check the name domain or URL of that website. It is found that in general, these fake news websites have very similar URL or they try to mimic the names of the reputed news websites so that the people think that the news is coming from a reputed website and this how they fool us.

• Examine the NEWS properly:- If you find a news that seems to be very important or something that everyone should know then it must be available on the news channels or in the other reputed and believable websites. If you still have dought then just google it and you will find whether the news is fake or real before forwarding it to any other social media platform or people.

• Observe the title and the thumbnail:- Most of the fake news websites only focuses on their traffic and on how to bring more and more people on their websites by the help of the titles and the thumbnails of there news articles. Their titles and thumbnail generally have words and images that attract people. You must take care of it.

Have you ever thought how a simple piece of text can make the situation bad to worst? These fake news needs to stop and this can only happen if we all come together against these fake news. Therefore stop forwarding fake news and if you find any of these, talk to the people who forwarded it to you and make them realise the effects of spreading such fake news.

You can share the link of this page too so that the person understands the effects of fake news. So I hope you are clear with the point and so share this with all your friends in as many ways you can so that this helps in the prevention of fake news being spread.