Fourth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies

Abstract

There have been significant ongoing movements in the media ecosystem raising new concerns about the susceptibility of democratic societies to fake news and the society’s restricted capacity to contain it. Fake news as a type of deception benefits the quick pace that data goes in the present media community. The ascent of fake news features the disintegration of long-standing institutional defences against deception in the internet age and the concern over this particular issue is worldwide. This paper underscores the role of digital media concerning the essence fake news through web based life and how it’s being spread. This paper features examples which prompted disharmony in the world because of scattering of misinformation through social media. The researcher used a qualitative approach by conducting a focus group discussion on students from both media and non-media backgrounds. In addition to this, an expert interview was conducted in order to understand how the plenitude of data sources online leads people to depend vigorously on heuristics and meaningful gestures. Web-based networking media offers both, test for continuous identification algorithms and focus on socio-technical interventions. This work will enable individuals to decide the credibility of data and to shape their convictions, which are thus very hard to address or change.