fake news

In recent years, the phenomenon of fake news spreads on the Web at the expense of Internet users. This false information can be propagated for different purposes. Some are intended to mislead the reader or to influence his opinion on a particular subject. Others are made from scratch with a catchy title to boost traffic and increase the number of visitors to a site.

The phenomenon of fake news took on a media dimension during the 2016 presidential election in the United States. This trend made its appearance in France a few months later when the people were also called to the polls to elect their new president.

The spread of fake news
If the Internet is teeming with resources, it is also a perfect vector for fake news. Google News, Facebook or Twitter have indirectly contributed to the spread of this misleading information. Faced with this phenomenon, the giants of the Web have all set up devices to penalize the media conveying these lies in order to regain a form of credibility for their respective users.

In the context of the presidential elections in France in 2017, Mark Zuckerberg's firm has closed 30,000 accounts. For its part, Twitter has identified more than 50,000 bots attached to the Russian government to influence the 2016 US presidential elections.

How to guard against fake news?
The identification of false information is a journalistic task. Several questions must be raised to identify the veracity of information.

It is important first to check the source of this information. Is the latter reliable? Does it have vocation to be neutral? Does she have a particular interest in spreading this information? Finally, it is important to note that some seemingly very serious studies are sometimes sponsored by a third party often in order to improve its 

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