Media and Changing Society Dilemmas and Challenges

The term fake news is in itself is a provocative one but when we track down its origin the story goes a long time back when it was not termed as it is today. Before, the promotion of these various propagandas were not seen as anything illegal or against the right of free debate or authentic news. When the environment took a sudden change and the cloud of fake or paid news burst out in the masses, it was just a few years back and people started taking the flow of false news or other false propagandas seriously. The fake is categorised into two parts basically the misinformation and the disinformation, the first one is the sharing of a false news through the various modes of social media now days and the second is production or making a false news for the masses in order to achieve any particular agenda. The social media has made it quite easy these days to regulate any false news or to promote any false propaganda though the number of paid groups, websites and others. Moreover, we share the same fake news through our social media networks without even checking the credibility of the same even for once. The government these days are holding most of the big media houses in order to promote their governance, policies and future election campaigns. While there are very few independent media houses both offline and online that are fighting for the masses so that the original news and information can reach them. However, the scenario of these fights against the governments worldwide has given rise to a new bloody war, which has led the killing of the number of news presenters and reporters around the globe, which is a threat to the right to genuine information. Manjinder Singh | Dr Renu "Media and Changing Society: Dilemmas & Challenges" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25079.pdf