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Major Impacts

The document discusses how fake news can have major impacts by shaping people's world views and leading them to make poor decisions, how using fake news sources for school assignments could lower grades, and how trusting medical fake news could harm people's health.

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Major Impacts

The document discusses how fake news can have major impacts by shaping people's world views and leading them to make poor decisions, how using fake news sources for school assignments could lower grades, and how trusting medical fake news could harm people's health.

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Jeffrey Victory
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Major impacts

We can understand by now that fake news and other types of false
information can take on different faces. They can also have major impacts,
because information shapes our world view: we make important decisions
based on information. We form an idea about people or a situation
by obtaining information. So if the information we saw on the Web is invented,
false, or distorted, we won’t make good decisions.

Fake News Can Affect Your Grades

Teachers require that you use quality sources of information for your research assignments and papers. If you use
sources that have false or misleading information, you may get a lower grade.

Fake News Can Be Harmful to Your Health

There are many fake and misleading news stories related to medical treatments and major diseases like cancer or
diabetes. Trusting these false stories could lead you to make decisions that may be harmful to your health.

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