Theme of the Month - Fake News

Fake news is “news that conveys or incorporates fake, fabricated, or deliberately misleading information, or that is characterised as or accused of doing so.” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2019)

Fake news is designed to manipulate people’s perceptions of real facts, events and statements. It is information presented as news that is known by its promoter to be false based on facts that are demonstrably incorrect, or statements or events that verifiably did not happen.