Tabloid journalism has been around for decades.
The man who sneezed so hard it blew his wife’s hair off her head, NASA capturing photos of ghosts in space, the dolphin that grew human arms, the shocking photos of Abraham Lincoln – not being a vampire slayer, as Hollywood might have you believe, but that “he” was in fact a she – all over-the-top fake.broadstreet.zone(48036);
But for that readership demographic, it’s all accepted with full acknowledgment that it’s just mindless entertainment, not news. Nobody really believes it.
Not so with the fake content of social media and the myriad of websites that have popped up to trick, deceive and flat out change people’s opinions on issues.
This became omnipresent during the 2016 presidential election. According to a New York Times story published Nov. 8, numerous fake accounts that were attributed to notable politicians were circulating bogus information in the days leading up to the election.
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