Filipinos are naturally humurous that they still manage to smile, laugh, and be positive of everything even in a hard situation. It can be reflected on how they behave in social media. We often make fun of things through our creativity but, is it still alright if we spread things to make fun? Or are we just making ourselves look funnier?
Fake news spreads much faster than real news according to a recent study. Currently, through the modernization of techmology, we are really in to different social media sites. “Those people who spread fake news may do so because they may gain status by sharing new information” Gross said. We often make fun of things that may consider as a factor why these things even though are fake, they spread fast. It is because theres something humorous about it. In result of this, some of the users might believe those. Especially when the site focuses on how they could gain shares and make themselves popular or may be just to simple trick people they may use facts. One example of this is the false pages of the politicians in the Philippines like the fake page of Boying Remulla, the Cavite Governor. In the real page of the Governor, the admins there are posting announcements like class suspensions. So the fake one also posting announcements of class suspension eventhough it is not officially confirmed. As a result, there are viewers of the posts by the page believe that it is really an announcement from the Cavite Governor. On the other way, there are also users that are aware of it and they tend to bash that page.
Through this kind of conflicts in social media, there are so many people are being tricked by the false news. Instead of sharing each other informations, they make things complicated. There will be no problem if we want to have fun or be humorous just think of the ways how we act and make sure it will never ruin ourselves. Therefore as Filipinos and a social media user, we should be careful on how we behave. We should be aware also of the posts that we are seeing and check if the sources of informations from the posts are valid and is it really a trustworthy post. Don’t get be tricked by the fake news.
Reference:
Gross Grant. (2018).Fake News Spreads Fast, But Don’t Blame the Bots. Retrieved from https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/03/fake-news-spread-fast-dont-blame-bots/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIiurX2-i83AIV0KmWCh0opwSnEAAYASAAEgLUtvD_BwE
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