I am proud to write this article about fake news. I may be a little old so I remember old times very well. There used to be honest reporting. When everyone was reading real newspapers… In the 2000s, when technology took over our lives, a tremendous increase was observed in the mass of the news. Newspapers, which were circulating in the hands of people older than 25-30 in the past, started to circulate in the hands of everyone from 7 to 70 with the help of phones and computers. This is how the era of manipulation began. There is also competition behind it. Some companies operating in the same industry began to print fake news in newspapers to defame the other. They do it in secret, but I know it. This is not just an economic dimension. There is also a desire to change the mechanism of thought. As a matter of fact, different news sources adopting different ideas have increased over the years. There is sheer variety in this. That’s why these sources, who try to impose their own thinking, can use fake news. Intelligent, educated people do not believe in such news, but there is a community that these newspapers can influence… Newspapers that make fake news are also aware of this community. Politics, in particular, feeds heavily on fake news. But I believe that the public’s sensitivity to this issue has increased. Governments that are honest and do their job well will also take a sanction decision on this issue. Some governments have already taken it. We can also attribute this interest in fake news in politics to money. Today is the age of honesty. People are too vigilant to avoid influencing the people who base their fake news on them in politics. Their only concern is to make money. I hope they don’t do it that way. On the contrary, if governments fined every fake, unproven news, these people wouldn’t even have a penny in their pockets. We want that too. For an honest future, hand in hand…
Berk Avcioglu
01.06.2022
