Fake news can spread faster than real news. Rhetorical devices like ethos, pathos, and logos are often used to get an emotional reaction from the audience. News is made to inform about events or information that the public needs to know. Fake news can also get spread by accident because the people giving out the news didn’t verify it first. The authors or writers of the news can manipulate the information they give to their audience to convince them to have an opinion that can have an impact. Authors use rhetoric to inform, inspire, and persuade when it comes to selling fake news. The tone and emotional language that they use can play with the biases and beliefs of the audience and provide fake evidence. Authors use rhetoric to inform when …show more content…
When it comes to inspiring, it involves a lot of emotion, the author uses a lot of emotional language that the audience can relate to. Make them believe in something that doesn’t happen all the time and that plays with the emotions of the audience. The article “Students Have ‘Dismaying’ Inability to Tell Fake News from Real. Study Finds” by Camila Domonoske stated, “Many assume that because young people are fluent on social media they are equally savvy about what they find there” (8). It comes from research to see if students can do proper research. The authors use that against the audience, making them believe that they are good at what they do and that what they find is accurate. The author also mentioned, “They weren’t looking for higher-level analysis of data but just a ‘reasonable bar’ of, for instance, telling fake accounts from real ones, an activist group from real ones, an activist group from neutral sources and ads from articles” (Domonoske, 7). It inspires the audience to think that their sources are accurate. In the article, they are talking about the young audience falling for fake news because that is the easier target. The young audience believes in themselves more than in finding the correct information. The author can also add emotional language to their own article and the audience believes it is