Currently, with the flood of information “bombarding” citizens rather than achieving greater and more accurate information, we find that conspiracy theories and Fake News multiply and are accepted by a significant portion of the population. To discern the impact of conspiracy theories and fake news, we must first define the path of “nonsense”.
The Influence of Conspiracy Theories and Fake News
The path of “nonsense” can only be determined if we check the conclusions of specific polls. In more detail:
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- 30% of US citizens believe that populations around the world are being sprayed, i.e. “chemical throws are being thrown at the citizens of countries by planes passing through the sky”.
- 29% of American citizens believe that it was not the terrorist organization Al Qaeda and its terrorists who directed the planes over the Twin Towers at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in New York, but the US Federal Government itself or Israel etc.
- 25% of European citizens believe that the cancer drug has been found, but governments around the world are fraudulently hiding it.
- 25% of adult Americans (Pew Research Center, 24/07/2020) believe that the Covid-19 virus was fraudulently placed in societies by powerful centers of global control for the control of individuals.
- 29% of adult Americans believe Covid-19 was produced in a laboratory or for a specific purpose.
- 25% of European citizens believe that Covid-19 is unnecessarily used to intimidate public opinion to impose compulsory vaccination.
It would be very constructive in our analysis of the penetration that Fake News has had in the past into societies to compare them with today’s fake news and their corresponding penetration, but unfortunately there are no past polls on them.
But surely, we can distinguish fake news from modern myths; in any case fake news is usually produced by widespread myths. It should be noted that both fake news and myths predated the advent of the Internet. Myths we find mixed with truths within the context of religions and religious histories. Fake news has existed throughout the centuries.
What is Fake News?
For example, fake news was the sinking of the American warship “USS Maine” in the Gulf of Havana, for unknown reasons that led to the American-Spanish War (1898) and the Independence of Cuba from the Spanish. Fake News was that Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, possessed nuclear weapons leading to the Second Gulf War (2003).
Myth is that the world is ruled by a small group of powerful and wealthy people.
In the age of the print media, newspapers that voluntarily became producers of false news were easy to isolate themselves from other newspaper publishers given the competition between them. The exception is when all the media in a country reproduces fake news to support a national cause.
The modern problem of Fake News
Nowadays Fake News travels fast due to their digital transmission and at the same time it is unknown where they started. When you do not know where they start it is difficult to fight them.
In addition, due to the internet and the advent of digital individuality – the presence of billions of people on social media, all these people inadvertently become the recipients of these fake news, resulting in becoming their transponders at the same time.
In both the US and Europe crowds of protesters, including far-right extremists, supporters of conspiracy theories, the anti-vaccine movement and more generally citizens who believe that restrictive measures have crushed the economy, are gathering to forget their differences and protest against their common enemy called the state, government or global conspiracy. They coordinate through the internet to increase their followers.
Germany (ΕU): On August 1st, 2020 about 20,000 people demonstrate in front of the Brandenburg Gate, chanting freedom, resistance, and slogans against the Bill Gates owner of Microsoft.
Spain (ΕU): On August 16, 2020, 3000 citizens gathered in Columbus Square in Madrid protesting Bill Gates, 5G technology and mandatory mask use equally.
France (EU): The “anti-masques” movement has not yet held a public rally. They only operate online.
USA: At least a dozen American states have held demonstrations against the mandatory use of masks, with those gathered coming from different start-ups and approaches, respectively.
How Conspiracy Theories and Fake News Are Created
As a result, their transmission speeds follow an exponential degree of acceleration and scatter.
Today’s myths about fake news are produced by the storm of information, which is used as some people want to compose fake news and make it believable.
This is because the logical order that must always be followed when prioritizing data is disturbed (data => information => knowledge => wisdom). When this logical sequence is disturbed, a gap is created between information and its logical processing, and conspiracy theories emerge.
But when this logical order of data hierarchy is observed, then the result is the acquisition of wisdom both at the individual level and at the social level.
Certainly, the average person today has nothing to do with the average person of yesterday, due to the increasing complexity of the modern world.
The protection of modern man against any fake news is the acquisition of real education that will give him the necessary judgment and criticism to separate truth from falsehood.
