'We Media' and Democracy

I have created a posted underlining the main questions to ask yourself when reading a source online or on social media so you know whether it is fake news or not. how to tell fake news from r by Eleanor Wason-Green

Over the years, the wordsmiths at OED look for a new word that is used that perhaps sums up the time we are living in or that has been used frequently in discourse. In previous years oxford english dictionary's words of the year have been... 2006 - Bovvered 2009 - Simples 2015 - Emoji 2016 - Post-truth 'Post truth'  is defined by the dictionary as an adjective "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. Editors believe that the term 'post truth' had increased by around 2,000% in 2016 compared to the year before. Collins dictionary word of the year in 2017 was  'Fake news' . It is defined as false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news. The word saw an unprecedented usage increase of 365% since 2016. Experts claim the Atlantic Ocean is 75% too wet & Pole dancing reclassified as an Olympic sport. In a...