Nanuka Inasaridze What is Fake News Fake News

Nanuka Inasaridze

What is ``Fake News´´? ● Fake News is a term that has come to mean different things to different people. ● Sometimes these stories may be propaganda. ● Fake news can so easily and quickly shared online.

Growing problem in recent years ● ● ● Everyone can create a blog and claim to be a journalist. Media literacy problem, people can not distinguish real news from fake. Increase in Technology and digital media. Social media has established new ways of communicating. The sad truth is that no one in today´s world is immune to it.

Misinformation and Disinformation ● Other types of Fake news. ● The universe of Fake news is much larger than simply false news stories.

Misinformation and Disinformation 1. Misinformation - information that is false, but the person who is disseminating it believes that it is true. 1. Disinformation - information that is false, and the person who is disseminating it knows it is false. It is a deliberate, international lie.

Russian propaganda in Georgia On August 14, published an article entitled "The EU Developing Plan was created in Nazi Germany. " The article notes that the EU is a Nazi project and it lacks a lack of democracy. ● This information is fake news, And is based on a fake Russian source (Katehon). Katehon president Konstantin Malofeev is a Russian businessman who is close to the Russian president and is associated with the separatist activities in Donbas and Crimea.

Russian propaganda in Georgia On March 4, 2018, former Russian State Security Service agent Sergei Scrippell and his son were murdered by nervous-parallel substances in the British city of Solberg. Britain's prime minister, Teresa Mei, said that the substance was prepared in Russia, after which he stopped dialogue at high political level with Russia ● Origin of the nervous substance. "Why only Russia? ", The official website of the Ministry of Defense of Russia Zvezda published an interview with Franz Klintsvich, representative of Federation Council, who does not exclude that the toxic agent in the UK is from Georgia or Ukraine.

Disinformation about the former Prime Minister of the UK pedophobia and cannibalism On January 20, the online Portal , , Info Postalioni” published an article entitled "Scandal! British Prime Minister raped children at his yacht and threw the corpses in water ● This information is Disinformation and its contain uncertain facts. The British police were conducting an investigation about this issue in 20152017. The final conclusion of the investigation says that he is not guilty and there are no facts that will prove. Info Postioni's article does not indicate that the investigation was completed in 2017, The reader misleads this.

How does fake news affect on the society

Media literacy ● Media literate means being able to access, analyze, and evaluate information, which we receive through media. ● Being media literate means being able to create media messages and to use the technology tools available to us. ● It means being able to think critically and speak confidently.

When we have media literacy skills ● We are able to free our minds. ● We are able to make our own judgments and choices. ● We are able to express our own views creatively and speak confidently.