The internet, which brings billions of people together, has become a kind of information dump alongside ‘freedom of speech’, because every head has a different voice and people can say whatever they want. While the Internet makes it very easy for important information to reach large masses when needed, it means the same is true for false and untrue information.

Social media platforms and news sites play the biggest role in spreading misinformation and news. News sites, and sometimes even news channels, are needed to confirm the source of the news. adequate care it doesn’t show. Worse, most news platforms simply don’t have a copy of the news they’ve seen elsewhere. without change prefers direct copy. I want to draw attention to this Closing Media An experimental video released yesterday by tragicomic It portrays the situation in a rather funny but realistic way.

They made up fake news with false information

Medya Slot, which aims to show that the information in the news published in Turkey, no matter how absurd the information, is not questioned enough, was posted on YouTube yesterday. ‘Hometown Media: Al-Fatiha to the Spirit’ released a video. To prove the reality of this situation, the team of Slot Medya prepared a news text with extremely ridiculous information and sent this text to various news platforms for publication.

In the aforementioned fictional news text, the legendary director who died in 1980 told Medya Castle. Alfred Hitchcock While it was said to receive an award in the ‘Mockumentary’ category at the Sundance Film Festival; Manager of the famous football team Liverpool Jurgen KloppIt was written that he was an American actor and the founder of the institute.

“I don’t think so much” You would think, but yes, that’s what happened. The websites of many major media outlets publish this news. pretend it’s true published! Of course, the experiment didn’t end there: the director of Medya Castle shared a thank you message for the prize on his social media account as part of the montage.I mit Oktay AymelekHe received many congratulations from those around him. The team even took the experiment to the next level by throwing a party for the fictitious prize.

It turns out how easy it is to publish untrue news

After the video released yesterday, the truth came out. By documenting the process of the experiment step-by-step, the team explained the background to the event and why they attempted such a thing. The point of the Turkish media clearly demonstrated. Aymelek made a statement on the subject from his social media account, saying:

“In Turkey, journalism has come deplorable condition We went on an experimental adventure to document it and announced with fake news that we had received an award at the Sundance Film Festival. Our news is complete with inconsistencies We created it from a full text. Neither the date of the festival nor the organizers nor the prize givers were real. in a nutshell fake news Although we have prepared our news, we have seen that we can easily broadcast our news in news organizations with hundreds of thousands of followers in our country.”

Slot Media may not have actually won an award at the Sundance Film Festival and not awarded by Hitchcock; but this work they put forward is real worth the price We think it’s a job. I think how fast information can spread on the internet and this information is not always correct; It couldn’t have been better explained that we have to question things before we blindly believe in them.

A little note about the mention of our name in the video:

In the video, our name is among the ‘sites that write promotional articles’. As Webtekno, we first do the necessary research in such news; if it contains incorrect information or if the news is fake, is of a nature that could be to the detriment of our readers we do not post on our platform†