Social media proliferation of fake news, Barack Obama: must be taken seriously-IT information
United States President Barack Obama also joined the false news of fierce debate, according to the Business Insider reports, Obama on Thursday in Berlin with Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel told a news conference held jointly, this may lead the political "struggle somehow" situation, and called for "serious facts" of great importance.
"Please do not forget that we are coming of age there are too many false information, this information is packaged very well, when you see these through Facebook page or TV content, they appear to be exactly the same message. "The President said," If everything seems to be the same, no distinction, so we don't know what to strive for. ”
Obama said: "if we do not take seriously the fact that, what is real and what is not, especially in the era of social media, if we fail to distinguish between the true and false, then we have a problem. ”
In a speech before, Obama said, repeating them on Facebook "outright lies" will allow people to actually start to believe them.
While BuzzFeed News survey shows that in the last three months of the presidential campaign, and fake news than the real news on this site more popular, has also attracted more interactive.
This is not Obama's stance on the issue for the first time, in Michigan for the Clinton campaign, he said, some people believe certain things, just because they read about on the Internet for information.
It is worth mentioning that, other than Facebook, Google is also mired in "fake news" impact event. Many electors search Google, hoping to get information such as the number of electoral votes. But when Internet users search for "final election data", "the final popular vote" and other search terms, it was discovered that Google has given a link to a fake Web site. The Web site claims trump other than electoral votes, also leading in the popular vote. But, in fact, the final number of votes, Clinton more than Donald Trump. Google then admitted in the false news that appears in the search results.
社交媒体假新闻泛滥，奥巴马：必须认真对待事实 - IT资讯
美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马也加入了日益激烈的假新闻辩论，据Business Insider报道，奥巴马周四在柏林与德国总理默克尔联合举行的新闻发布会上说，这可能把政治引向“不知为什么而奋斗”的境地，并呼吁“认真对待事实”的重要性。
“请不要忘记，我们所处的时代有太多虚假信息，这些信息都包装得很好，当你通过Facebook主页或者电视看到这些内容时，它们看起来跟其他消息完全一样。”奥巴马说，“如果一切似乎是一样的，没有做出区别，那么我们不知道该为了什么而奋斗。”
奥巴马指出：“如果我们不认真对待事实，什么是真实的，什么不是，特别是在社交媒体的时代，如果我们不能区分这些真假，那么我们就有问题。”
在前一次演讲中，奥巴马表示，在Facebook上重复这些“彻头彻尾的谎言”将使人们真正开始相信他们。
而同时BuzzFeed News的调查显示，在总统竞选的最后三个月里，该网站上的假新闻比真新闻更受欢迎，也吸引了更多互动。
这并非奥巴马首次就此问题表态，他在密歇根州为希拉里助选时就曾表示，某些人之所以会相信某些事情，仅仅是因为他们在网上看到了相关的信息。
值得一提的是，除了Facebook之外，谷歌也深陷“假新闻”事件的影响。许多网名选民搜索谷歌，希望能够获得最终的选举票数等信息。不过当网民搜索“最终选举数据”、“最终选民票数”等关键词时，人们发现谷歌却给出了一个虚假网站的链接。这家网站宣称特朗普除了选举人票之外，在选民票数上也领先。但是实际上，选民最终票数方面，希拉里超过了特朗普。谷歌随后承认在搜索结果中出现了虚假新闻。