Fake news and its effects dominated headlines in 2016. The US Presidential election alone was witness to the maximum number of cooked up articles being published online.
So what is fake news ? well it is just about any made-up story that is presented as if they are factual news accounts. Although such cases have existed before, this year it went out of control with social media giants Facebook, Twitter and search leader Google being forced to take prompt actions. The companies have developed and are still developing tools to tackle this menace.
Pizzagate
"Hillary Clinton is running a child sex ring out of a pizza shop." As defamatory as this headline sounds, it did end up going viral among online news outlets when websites like Infowars.com, Planet Free Will and the Vigilant Citizen picked up an allegation that said democratic party members were running a child trafficking racket from a Pizza shop named Comet Ping Pong in Washington DC.
Later several mainstream publications like The Observer, The New York Times, The Huffington Post and more came forward to debunk the theory and claimed it was totally made up. They said images of children of family and friends of the pizzeria's staff were taken from social media sites and put up as photos of victims which were false
who voted just like the headline on the bus which says we send ?350 million a week to the EU, implying that we actually throw them the money, which we don't. Again 51% of people who voted can't read or think for themselves 
plus they don't know that Paris is in Texas 
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