Fake news has been given a lot of airtime, especially recently since being blamed for the election of pussy-grabbing, ballbag-faced Donald Trump. Stories made up purely to spread propaganda and manipulate the population at a dangerous and worldwide level is of course, concerning. Like Pope Francis endorsing Donald Trump? That Simpson's meme predicting his presidency? Hillary Clinton murdering a FBI agent? All a big, fat fake.
We have so much information at the tap of a keyboard. We are chomping through more online news articles and viral memes than Quality Street for breakfast on Christmas morning.
Facebook's Zuckerberg thinks he has the answer, but is it really that simple? How do we tell the difference between what is real news and what is fake? Especially when very weird things actually do happen (see: a camel acts as a seeing guide for a horse and they are now BFFS).
But you're feeling confident right?! You're clever and have great taste in online articles (ha) so you could suss out what is BONKERS Mariana-Joyce-style news and what is faker than a TOWIE holiday to Marbella which always ends in someone crying into their Sangria, whilst eyelashes are still on fleek.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.