Fake news fakes listeners.

Misinformation and disinformation have been the two major ways that help fake news to fly. I've read, listen to and watched countless fake news of which many have bought into the propaganda of the stories, only to later detect that it's either full lies or lies with a pinch of truth

Just recently when the Queen of England kicked the bucket, my brother saw the news a few minutes it was published on the internet and relayed it to me. To be double sure, I checked it online and the content that matched my search popped up which reads that "The queen is still alive that the news of her death was a kinda misinformation

Afer some minutes, I heard it all over the place and it was confirmed that we've lost a great personality in the world. You see, the blogger knew the queen was dead and created a blog to confuse the readers. Of course, it generated many leads because it's among the contents that pops up when anyone searches for anything related to "queen of England is dead". I see this as pure misinformation intentionally generated with the intent to deceive or confuse people to make them visit the site and the aim was achieved because it has many views. Most misinformed news is generated with the intent to hide the truth or influence public opinion

Sometimes, people bring fake news to the table with facts for people to believe it's true. And if you are not analytical enough to think deeply, you will greatly fall for it. There has been this news all over Nigeria that president Mohammodu Buhari died not long after he won the presidential seat but the top officials kept it away from the citizens and brought another person with 99% resemblance to continue his tenure

This wasn't something hidden. People talked about it on social media. Many people made several videos trying to convince the public that the person ruling the country is ineligible and fake. People also said that his wife was not aware of what happened but only suspected foul play when she discovered that the person living with her acted strangely and that's why she left the villa. Different stories are everywhere. The Guardian (One of the top newspaper publishers in Nigeria) captured in one of their papers the president's reaction to the rumour

The news didn't have too much effect on me because Im not directly affected it's a general issue that somehow affected the stability of Nigerian politics and many other things like economic progress. Getting to the root of the matter was done by simple reasoning while watching what would end the saga. But nothing came up. The president will finish his second term in a few months and this issue of cloning started during his second term campaign. So I see all those info and news as lies. Pure political misinformation. Well, I don't like the president because he's the worst I've encountered in my generation, however, the news of the clone to me is pure and false news