What Is The News Of 1984 By George Orwell

Fake news. There are many different and contrasting news that go around from In an age where an audience of millions (on the Internet) is easily accessed, the quantity of information being produced has increased greatly-along with that, the quality and truthfulness of this information has become less reliable. The people feel like it is their right to talk and express what they feel in whatever way possible in different mediums because it is the first amendment . They may be right, but do you ever think what would happen if the government decided to control and limit what people say or do, in the name of “ for the society’s own good”? In many texts and works of literature during and after World War II, people depicted what the world and society
would be shaped into if the government controlled the power of speech and other informational power. One of this texts is the book 1984 by George Orwell. While there is some good that can come from governmental regulation, ultimately, the harms to free thought are greater. George Orwell depicts a lot of instances where the government/inner party controls and passes fake news to the people.
The government ends up controlling everything hence a dictatorship government. “Syme had vanished… Syme had ceased to exist, he had never existed”(Orwell 147). This is what happened after the inner party had killed Syme, a man who worked in Research Department, just because he was too wise and intelligent and they could not risk all the information that he had going into the public. They erased all the information about Syme and took him out of all the records. They made it seem as if he never ever existed and although the people who knew him knew that he did exist, there was no way to prove it. In this extreme case of governmental control of information, the resulting impact totally takes away the life of an innocent
man. The government, in 1984, cIn 1984, Orwell presents the dangers of governmental control.
All the news and information that is passed to the people is looked over by the government many times and they only let the people know what they think is necessary. They falsify anything and everything they feel like and destroy all evidence that would testify against them.
"Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished?...Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted,...every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind..”
According to the inner party, the form of government depicted in 1984, the past does not exist. This is definitely not true. The past does exist but it has been changed and all the new generations and old generation are made to believe false news. There is not evidence that could teach or prove otherwise. Orwell warns of the dangers to truth and individual freedom coming from the governmental control of information. In more current
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However, some people would argue that giving people freedom to talk and express their feelings would do a lot of harm to the greater society and that the government should limit all the materials that its subjects can see or talk about. For example in more current times, there have been many instances where fake news have been spread all over the society for example in Snopes, a website that covers news and just informing people of what is going on in the society, they covered a bunch of articles of fake news that people write for fun spread stupid news. In one of the articles covered on this website, it brings up an interesting story; “Did 'Barack Obama's Stylist' Reveal He Is 'a Gay'?” the story basically tries to argue that Obama’s personal stylist saw Obama and another guy in a closet having sex. The articles continues to say that the personal stylist confessed this at an interview. However, based on deep research and lack of real evidence like names of people involved and places this news are proved fake. People argue that giving people this kind of freedom will sooner or later lead to other major bad consequences.