Our minds are constantly being invaded by legions of half truths or prejudices, and false facts. One of the great needs of mankind is to be lifted above the morass of false propaganda(Martin Luther King Jr.).”
This quote is showing you that the media is a way to false information, yet what we really want is to obtain the truth. Throughout, the article the author is trying to show how this specific union of liberals and trump supporters use the news as a network of false information and propaganda for important issues.
In the article, “Los Angeles time ” The author Anna Friedman writes about how protesting and news sites help uplift liberals by having fake agendas and spread false information to the media . In the article the media is an outlet
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Sometimes all you have to do is take a funny meme a bit too seriously. Take, for example, a well-circulated animated GIF of Melania Trump during the inauguration ceremony. The clip shows her smiling while her husband is facing her, then dropping the smile as soon as he turns away. ” The author is explaining that false information can easily be speared by the media, on small issues like Melania appearance as an example. The issue doesn't have to big, but if taken seriously it can become an …show more content…
(In December, a Pew study found that 23% of U.S. adults had shared a made-up news story, either knowingly or not.) And despite liberals’ self-perception that we are more fact-oriented than your average Trump supporter, this is not a weakness limited to the right.” In this quote the author is explaining that many people are not telling the truth, but are just using the internet to spread beliefs they feel are true. The evidence that almost 23% people are posting fake news with or without clue. Another idea from this quote is that showing not having fact or having facts doesn't make you weaker or stronger when spreading fake information.
Finally, the author concludes with the following example: “Fake news, as defined by the Columbia Journalism Review, is “misinformation crafted to influence public opinion or cull digital advertising dollars.” When researchers from Stanford and New York University analyzed misinformation that spread on social media during the 2016 election, they found that more fake news articles were pro-Trump than