Armenia, EU signed Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement. First steps toward entering the European Union.Last friday, I received several congratulatory messages via social media platforms, mainly envying messages that soon I will be holder an EU passport. I already knew that there was an agreement to be signed by EU-Armenia during the Eastern Partnership Summit, but I had to fact check the last part. Is Armenia heading to the EU with this agreement? well as much as I hoped so, it won’t! But this initiative can lead into other initiatives that might enter Armenia to the European Union.
FAKE NEWS CLASSIFIED
- Clickbate: When containing fabrications and packaged as a legitimate news story.
- Satire: When deceptively packaged as a legitimate news story.
- Propaganda: When containing fabrications and packaged as a legitimate news story.
- Misleading or out-of-context information: When also serving as support for fabrications.
- Conspiracy theory: When packaged as a legitimate news story.
MEDIA LITERACY
Media Literacy is a 21st century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy. Center Media Literacy
While writing about fake news, I cannot not mention ‘Media Literacy’ which is one of the powerful tools can use to abolish the mechanism of fake news.
BOROWITZ REPORT
Andy Borowitz is a New York Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever National Press Club award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by The New Yorker in 2012. He has published two recent best-selling books: “The 50 Funniest American Writers,” which became the first title in the history of the Library of America to make the Times best-seller list; and a memoir, “An Unexpected Twist,” a No. 1 best-seller, which Amazon named the Best Kindle Single of 2012. His Twitter feed, @BorowitzReport, has more than half a million followers and was voted the best Twitter feed of 2011 in a poll by Time. As a comedian, he has performed sold-out shows around the world and has made countless television and radio appearances, on National Public Radio, VH1, and Comedy Central, among other places. He has been called a “Swiftian satirist” (the Wall Street Journal), “America’s satire king” (the Daily Beast), “the funniest human on Twitter” (the Times), and “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS News’ “Sunday Morning”).
ANDY BOROWITZ
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URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/there-is-no-eu-solution-toclimate-change-as-long-as-ttip-exists-a6763641.html
After doing my research on this article, I believe the whole purpose of it is to serve as a clickbate since it contains fabrications and it is packaged as a legitimate news story.
The entire article is provoked by a licked article from the EU that claims: “European governments have instructed their representatives to block any discussion of measures to combat climate change that might be a restriction on international trade”. While going further into the licked document, you can find that the source is not clear; it is not formal and misses grounds. So why to use a tagline to misguide readers?
Another thing that was brought to my attention is the author of this article John Hilary. Mr. Hilary is the executive director of ‘War on Want’ which they state and I quote ‘War on Want works to achieve a vision of a just world, through our mission to fight against the root causes of poverty and human rights violation, as part of the worldwide movement for global justice.’
Just world and human right violation advocate by using ungrounded article? Sounds credible!
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