Fake news is also known as “pseudo-news” or hoax news are news or in general, content that is supposed to be informative to readers and users, whether delivered via social media or offline. They are instead presented to the wider public without any proper contextualizing details and sources. They could be themselves fabricated or written without proper quotes and therefore deprived of verifiable sources to verify them. Nowadays, due to the proliferation of social media information and because of the staggering numbers of people worldwide that have access to technology assets and related information, fake news has been gaining more and more
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The western misrepresentation of Islamic world
Even if social media nowadays feel to be very influential in our life, still most of the information that we receive daily are coming from traditional media, that are also present in our social networks. The way the news is represented and the way the narratives we receive daily will influence our way of thinking. In this regard, after the 2001 attack on the Twin Towers, the attention of media over the so-called “Islamic terrorism” literally boosted in the whole Western World. The day after the September 11 attack, Bush made a speech that remained in history, usually referred to