Slot Medya conducted an experiment to show the point reached by the journalism industry in Turkey. What happened within the framework of the experiment proved once again how important it is to question the authenticity of the information we see on the internet.
The internet, which brings together billions of people, has turned into a kind of information dump besides ‘freedom of expression’, as each head has a different voice and people can say whatever they want. Although the internet makes things very easy for important information to reach large masses when necessary, this means that 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 required to confirm the source of the news. adequate care it doesn’t show. Worse still, most news platforms simply don’t have a copy of the news they’ve seen elsewhere. without change prefers direct copying. This is what I want to draw attention to Slot Media An experimental video released yesterday by tragicomic It portrays the situation in a rather amusing yet realistic way.
They fabricated fake news with untrue information
Slot Medya, which wants to show that the information in the news published in Turkey, no matter how absurd the information is, is not questioned enough, was on YouTube yesterday. ‘Hometown Media: Al-Fatiha to the Spirit’ released a video. In order to prove the reality of this situation, Slot Medya team prepared a news text with extremely ridiculous information and sent this text to various news platforms for publication.
Legendary director who passed away in 1980 to Slot Medya in the aforementioned fictional news text. Alfred Hitchcock It was stated that the award was presented 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 guess not that much” You might think, but yes, that’s what happened. The websites of many major media outlets are reporting this news. pretending to be true published! Of course, the experiment did not end there: Slot Medya director shared a thank you message for the award on his social media account as part of the editing.i Ümit Oktay AymelekHe received many congratulatory messages from his surroundings. The team even took the experiment to the next level by throwing a celebration party for the fictional prize.
It turns out how easy it is to publish untrue news
After the video released yesterday, the truth of the matter emerged. By recording the experiment process step by step, the team explained the background of the event and why they attempted such a thing. The point of the Turkish media clearly demonstrated. Making a statement on the subject from his social media account, Aymelek said:
“In Turkey, journalism has come deplorable condition We embarked 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 completely with inconsistencies We created it from a full text. Neither the date of the festival, nor the organizers nor the award givers were real. in a nutshell fake news Although we have prepared our news, we have witnessed that we can easily broadcast our news in news organizations with hundreds of thousands of followers in our country.”
Slot Media may not really have won an award at the Sundance Film Festival and not been awarded by Hitchcock; but this work they put forth is really worthy of the award We think it’s a job. I guess how fast information can spread on the internet and this information is not always accurate; It couldn’t have been better explained that we have to question things before we blindly believe something.
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