BBC sets up team to debunk fake news
My opinion: The BBC is to assemble a team to fact check and debunk deliberately misleading and false stories masquerading as real news. news chief James Harding told staff on Thursday that the BBC would be “weighing in on the battle over lies, distortions and exaggerations”. The plans will see the corporation’s Reality Check series become permanent, backed by a dedicated team targeting false stories or facts being shared widely on social media. The BBC can’t edit the internet, but we won’t stand aside either,” Harding said. “We will fact check the most popular outliers on Facebook, Instagram and other social media. False information around big events such as the UK’s referendum on leaving the EU and the US election has been especially rife, with numerous instances of completely fabricated stories, many of which are created with the sole aim of generating advertising revenue from people viewing the stories. The BBC’s Reality Check team will focus on content that is clearly fabricated and attempting to mislead the public into thinking it has been produced by a reputable news organisation.
[] The plans include an expertise network drawing on staff across BBC, which has received £290m to expand its reach into new languages + putting more resources into data journalism.
[] corporation had been inundated by news in 2016 because the world was “living in an age of instability”.
My Opinion: BBC is such a large organisation and a institution, they have a lot of power to get things done and have control of things but not that many either. Many people and organisation know that fake news is really recurring on social media sites and the problem lies in the social media not being able to control this, this is why bigger institutions such as BBC now have to get involved. This on going problem raises alarms for a wider audiences but then they are doubting their trust on the site which then can lead to many people not visiting sites no more or giving out complaints - due to social networks not being able to control and trying to fix the problem. BBC organisation getting involved and trying to fix these issue shows that the impact of fake news is much bigger than people realise and needs to be tackled and now they need to just come up with a plan that can fix or limit these fake news sources coming up.
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