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In the US: prevalent fake news
Fake news is defined as false news stories that appear to be
real, typically used to advance political agendas, stoke
confusion among the public, or joke and satirize.
It is also used facetiously to dismiss or discredit
information and viewpoints that one doesn’t agree
with, or to refer to overly biased or misleading
news that may contain some truth, but is distorted,
omits other information, or is focused on only
specific elements of the story to suit a certain
political agenda. The public can make fake news
out of a simple tool from There is also hat uses AI
technology. In the US, the law enforcement of fake news
started in 1762. After the 2016 presidential election, fake
news was particularly prevalent and spread rapidly over social
media by "bots", according to researchers at the Oxford Internet
Institute. Republican candidate Donald Trump tweeted or retweeted posts
about "fake news" or "fake media" 176 times as of December 20, 2017, according to an online archive of all
of Trump's tweets. Some real events were caused by fake news. According to the Marubeni Research Institute
“On Sunday, December 4, 2016, a shooting incident occurred at a pizza shop in northwestern Washington D.C.
during the middle of the day. The anonymous bulletin board sites then focused their attention on the pizza shop
called Comet Ping Pong, which was frequently mentioned in the e-mail of John Podesta, head of the Clinton
campaign, whose e-mails were being successively leaked on the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks at about this
same time. This escalated into posts that this shop was the site of child sex trafficking.” As the number of
people who believed in the fake news grew, and the threats directed at the pizza shop increased, the shops in
the neighborhood also became involved. The fake news in the US is affecting society.

In the Russia: Government’s choice on the Information given of the war
To Western audiences, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has unfolded as a series of brutal attacks punctuated
by strategic blunders. But on Russian television, those same events were spun as positive developments, an
interpretation aided by a rapid jumble of opinion and falsehoods. According to NYT, Russian television’s
convoluted and sometimes contradictory narratives about the war are not solely intended to convince viewers
that their version of events is true, disinformation experts say. Just as often, the goal is to confuse viewers and
sow distrust so audiences are not sure what to believe. As Russian forces retreated from the region surrounding
Kyiv, graphic images circulated showing bodies of dead civilians lying in the streets. In Bucha, some civilians
were found with their hands bound or with gunshot wounds to the head. On Russian television, the discovery