1984 False News Analysis
Fake news is a false news in which the content has been changed or made up in order to gain popularity and money, turn down a news organization or a website, lower an individual’s dignity, or change people’s opinion toward a specific event, based on the intent of the person claiming it. There are several websites such as Danger and Play that make up news and share it with people. This mode of news is devastating and the danger it has might sometimes be horrifying. This is what happened in the world of 1984. Winston’s job in the Ministry of Truth was to change the History and present the new history, made by, and in favor of, the government, to the people. The result was that people were unaware of what was going on in their country and nobody
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had any idea of what was going on in the world. This type of news has devastating effects. It is an issue today because people are relied on news agencies; furthermore, they mostly tend to get their news from one specific website which makes them believe that what they read is true, when that might not be correct. Taking a look back at our last presidential election, there were several websites, such as Danger and Play, that were changing the reality and making up false statements about the nominees. For example, Danger and Play shared on their website an article claiming that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has Parkinson’s disease, when in fact that statement was totally false; however, many people believed that the article was real. People viewing this type of contents and sharing it with their friends makes money for the website by increasing the views of its content.
Changed and false news also had the same devastating effect in the world of 1984.
The reason for that is that Winston, who is the main character in the book 1984, and his colleagues’ job in the Ministry of Truth was to change the truth in the daily news in a way where it suited the Party and its rules; however, in that world, people only had one source of news and that was what the Party shared with them. As a result of this, it made them more vulnerable to what they were told. In such a society, people have no idea of what the truth is; they believe in what they read. This is not a positive thing because it makes the party look proficient although they did a terrible job. Fake news is an alteration of the fact and changing it to what one may like with an intent to destroy the image of an individual, gain popularity and money, and change someone’s thought toward a specific event. It has a devastating effect in both today’s and 1984’s world because when people do not know the truth, they believe in what they read. They are unaware of the reality. This is worse in 1984 than in today’s world because the government has taken away people’s ability to think by having all sorts of controlling methods, such as Thought Police and
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had any idea of what was going on in the world. This type of news has devastating effects. It is an issue today because people are relied on news agencies; furthermore, they mostly tend to get their news from one specific website which makes them believe that what they read is true, when that might not be correct. Taking a look back at our last presidential election, there were several websites, such as Danger and Play, that were changing the reality and making up false statements about the nominees. For example, Danger and Play shared on their website an article claiming that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has Parkinson’s disease, when in fact that statement was totally false; however, many people believed that the article was real. People viewing this type of contents and sharing it with their friends makes money for the website by increasing the views of its content.
Changed and false news also had the same devastating effect in the world of 1984.
The reason for that is that Winston, who is the main character in the book 1984, and his colleagues’ job in the Ministry of Truth was to change the truth in the daily news in a way where it suited the Party and its rules; however, in that world, people only had one source of news and that was what the Party shared with them. As a result of this, it made them more vulnerable to what they were told. In such a society, people have no idea of what the truth is; they believe in what they read. This is not a positive thing because it makes the party look proficient although they did a terrible job. Fake news is an alteration of the fact and changing it to what one may like with an intent to destroy the image of an individual, gain popularity and money, and change someone’s thought toward a specific event. It has a devastating effect in both today’s and 1984’s world because when people do not know the truth, they believe in what they read. They are unaware of the reality. This is worse in 1984 than in today’s world because the government has taken away people’s ability to think by having all sorts of controlling methods, such as Thought Police and
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