Media houses are causing havoc these days, last month in Nigeria something terrible happened in a state called plaetue state.
Some said it's ethnic rivalry while others said it's the work of the politicians, the rivals of the party in power are killing people like chicken so citizens can criticize the president. Here's where the media causes havoc some media houses said the killings in Plateau was because indigenes of that state stole and killed 300 cows that belonged to the herdsmen.
This news turned out to be fake news but the damage has already been done, the herdsmen and other ethnic groups started slaughtering each other cause of this news.
Some people say the govt pay some media houses to reduce the number of victims that were involved in some killings, I'm not that good at English so I'm sorry.
The media is meant to be a neutral body always telling the truth but it seems things has changed, the media is no longer trustworthy.
For news that are easily verifiable(like sports news, music competitions, weather disasters and the likes) people still trust the media for those things.
However when personal opinions of the network or even a little politics is involved, people have become too wary. Fake News have been going on for some time now to sway people in favor or against the government. Knowing this, people are now more likely to verify first the news if it really happened or if it's at least close to the truth.
Media houses are causing havoc these days, last month in Nigeria something terrible happened in a state called plaetue state.
Some said it's ethnic rivalry while others said it's the work of the politicians, the rivals of the party in power are killing people like chicken so citizens can criticize the president. Here's where the media causes havoc some media houses said the killings in Plateau was because indigenes of that state stole and killed 300 cows that belonged to the herdsmen.
This news turned out to be fake news but the damage has already been done, the herdsmen and other ethnic groups started slaughtering each other cause of this news.
Some people say the govt pay some media houses to reduce the number of victims that were involved in some killings, I'm not that good at English so I'm sorry.
The media is meant to be a neutral body always telling the truth but it seems things has changed, the media is no longer trustworthy.
For news that are easily verifiable(like sports news, music competitions, weather disasters and the likes) people still trust the media for those things.
However when personal opinions of the network or even a little politics is involved, people have become too wary. Fake News have been going on for some time now to sway people in favor or against the government. Knowing this, people are now more likely to verify first the news if it really happened or if it's at least close to the truth.