Title: Fake news: What exactly is it – and how can you spot it?
Headings: Fake news: What exactly is it – and how can you spot it?
Fake news: What exactly is it – and how can you spot it?
The origins of fake news
How did the internet and social media change things?
Impact of Russia, the 2016 US election and Trump
So, what exactly is fake news?
Has it had an influence?
What is being done about it?
How do you spot it?

Content: In addition chat apps like WhatsApp have become hubs for disinformation and fake news, so much so that its parent Facebook reduced the number of people users can forward a message to down to five. Other apps like end-to-end encryption app Telegram has also allowed for false information to be more readily spread. Impact of Russia, the 2016 US election and Trump
In 2019, Trump unveiled the winners of his much-touted " Fake News Awards ", escalating his already persistent attacks on a number of major US media outlets. The brash Republican president announced the ten "honorees" using his preferred medium of Twitter, linking to a list published on the Republican Party's website that crashed minutes after his big reveal. Trump's Twitter account became a hub for fake news and misinformation with the social media site making the decision to label his tweets last year. In May, Jack Dorsey's tech giant labelled Mr Trump's tweets for showing manipulated media. It also limited his posts for "glorifying violence" when he tweeted "when the looting starts the shooting starts" during the Black Lives Matter protests. However, hoaxes and falsehoods have been associated with the internet since its early days, but it is only in the last three years that organised, systematic misinformation campaigns, often linked to governments, have emerged, and their effect on democracy and society scrutinised. The 2016 US election has been seen as providing a fertile breeding ground for fake news. Some credit Mr Trump's anti-establishment rhetoric and distrust of the mainstream media.