Just a few months ago no one knew what Fidget Spinners were and now they are pretty much everywhere and have become a problem that schools had to ban them. But what is the real history of fidget spinners and are the latest fad. The media has been reporting various things, however as we have come to see a lot of it is FAKE news. So I’ll take this time to clear some misconceptions.
Category: Let’s get Political
Let's get Political
What exactly is happening with “Fake News”?
There is a new buzzword that has become quite popular in the last few months and that is Fake News. The rise of this term is a rather odd one as what it has become today is not really the original meaning that it was given, nor the meaning that it was changed to. We’ve got to dwell a little bit more into how fake news evolved from a simple way to describe something that was happening to something entirely different.
The American presidential election in 2016 was not without a bunch of twists and turns but for the most part let’s try to ignore most of the complexity of it and focus only on the important context to avoid furthering any specific side. It is not really something invalid to say that the final results were anything but shocking no matter which side you rooted for. No one knew what to make of it and it came as a surprise to pretty much everyone so excuses or shall we say reasons as to how this could have ever happened began to arise everywhere. This is important as it’s basically where the story of the term Fake News being used.