Fake news is often spread via social media, but there’s a aspect of preventing fake-news in a case that a influential person uses them.
Traditionally weekly magazines publish articles on celebrities’ scandals or gossips. But in recent days, I often see that some of those information are denied by celebrities themselves. At present, almost all the famous people are having their own media which they can express their own comments like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
In these days, a Japanese weekly magazine made an article on the most famous Kabuki actor. The article says he doesn’t get along with another famous actor. The former posted his comment on his blog saying the article is not true.
It depends on the kinds of articles magazines report, but when it comes to some articles which use quite dubious information, the celebrities can post counterargument convincing their fans that the article is not true. Since weekly magazines need to get attention from readers, they look like exaggerating the topics. However, as the article was denied on his blog this time, now those articles came to not make sense. Publishers would even get condemned by the fans of a person written on the article. Generally fake-news is spread via the Internet, but in this case social media help preventing fake-news.
Apart from the case above, there’s another one that social media as a means of expressing his/her own words has significant importance. Recently there was an incident that a member of popular idol group was attacked by men. Later she criticized the insufficient action of the company she belongs on the Internet. As Japanese sociologist Noritoshi Furuichi commented on TV show, the social network services helped her express her own words.
Establishment of social network services as a means of expressing own statements can help people suffering from lack of place to mention their words and reduce the spread of fake-news. This is one of the benefits the technology brought.
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