THE CONSEQUENCES OF SPREADING FAKE NEWS ABOUT CELEBRITIES B Y M A R I A B U R A N Y

Have you heard that Miley Cyrus is divorcing after 8 (!!!) months of marriage? Or about the

relationship of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper? Of course, you have. Yellow journalism is

full of news about celebrities – what they do, who they marry with, when they divorce, who

had a cheat on his/her fiancé, etc.

As newspapers make their living by writing about others, they are in favour of producing as many

news as they can – no matter if it is true or not. Of course, there are some mediums that are a

trustworthy and reliable source.

Being a celebrity can be mentally and spiritually destroying as they (actors, singers and politicians)

and their families have no personal life, they hardly can have secrets, and they live their life „on the

stage” every hour of the day. Human beings need some personal space by nature and in the 21st

century is highly limited by media, social media and press.

So, you may ask what we can learn from this? The lesson to be learned is not to believe everything

that you read in the newspapers and social media. Try to imagine the situation of the person who was

interviewed. It often occurs that from a one hour speech the journalist puts only a short quote into the

article, and in a different context it has a totally different meaning, it can be even offensive if you are

not informed about the thoughts and perspectives behind it. Moreover, you should be aware of the

fact that famous people are surrounded by journalists and cameras all the time when they leave their

house. They might be exhausted of being watched and might make mistakes, as they are humans just

like you are. Try not to judge them since you do not know them personally- believe it or not this

attitude can save lives.

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VEGAN PLAYER REFUSED TO CAPTURE THE HORSE

T H E 3 0 T H I T A L I A N C H E S S C H A L L E N G E W A S S U S P E N D E D ! !

In Cesena, a city near Bologna,

during the 30th Italian

Championship, the two

prestigious champions, Bruno

Barilla and Armando Gabbana

were playing a emotional

game.

Barilla was very near to win

the game, when he refused to

capture the horse. He

immediately stopped the game

saying: “I am sorry, but I can’t

capture the horse because this

is against my life principles: I

am a vegan!! So he insistently

asked to change the horse and

use a carrot or a cucumber

instead.

The organizers tried for a

longtime to explain him that he

did not really have to eat the

horse, but only to take it and put

it out from the table.

Unfortunately nobody was able

to make him change his point of

view. Also, the family of the pyer

told him: pretend it to be a

cucumber please, we need the

money of the victory we beg

you! But there was nothing to do

to persuade him.

Nine hours passed, in deadly

silent, looking at the table.

Mr Gabbana exploded in all his

fury and shouted: “Why didn’t

you have a problem when you

capture and kill the Queen?? You

are a sexist cannibal!!“

Inevitably the situation

degenerated: the two

adversaries fought and Gabbana

also tried to put the horse in

Barilla's mouth.

Suddenly the president of the

conference interrupted the

challenge and proposed all the

participants to go to a the

restaurant: The house of soia.

The game was declared won by

the adversary.

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B Y I O S I F C H A L A V A Z I S

JEWS ON THE SPOT OF MEDIA

How many times have you ever listened someone blaming Jews about something? Probably a lot,

because people believe that Jews have the control of banking and business institutions.

The roots of this liquid anti-semitic sentiment can be found on fake news. If we look the historical data,

we can see that the hate for Jews has started in Medieval times.

In our days, the hate speech about Jews doesn’t have stable bases. There are many stories on news that

imply debating personalities to be Jews and members of a secret masonic sect, the Illuminati, that have

as their main goal to destabilize the national governments and establish a new international

totalitarian regime.

Into this regime, people will be controlled by implanted chipsets, they will lack free will, they will

decline their cultural identity and accept a new one that will corrupt them and turn them to slaves of

Jews. Many times this scenario contains evil spirits or the Satan himself.

This paranoid way of thinking has multiple levels and its very popular in conservative audiences,

religious groups or in half educated masses.

One more characteristic of fake news against Jews, can travel through other media and in time.

B Y D A N I I L T U Z I K A S

ALIEN FAKE

NEWS

Everybody was struggling with

fake news in their life. Internet,

social media and television, all

of this platforms shared fake

news. Nowadays, we still have a

problem with it through all of

this platforms. Some of them

might be very ridiculous, for

example, there’s a lot of topics

about aliens and unknown

creatures in space.

found very interesting and at

the same time very weird

article about one of the alien

theories. Article says us about

that alien civilizations certainly

exist, but they’re simply

inactive. That’s the “aestivation

hypothesis”. so article says that

that aliens may be

“hibernating”

until the environmental

conditions are just right to

become active and build their

super society. The researchers

argue that the laws of

thermodynamics directly limit

computation, as computing

technologies need to be cooled

in order to function. This makes

it exceedingly difficult to create

advanced technologies, as

keeping them cool at scale

quickly becomes prohibitively

difficult. So the aliens are

falling into a dormant until, to

be blunt, the universe cools. For

alien life to persist, the

researchers write, it must hang

on: “like trying to ride a wild

bull. Most life falls off.” Life can

only take place with the

presence of an unlikely

feedback loop. In this case,

Earth is the exception to the

rule. dia always making their

texts look very real and

scientific, and people who read

it, of course starts to believe it.

The article I choose there for my

example is not an exception.

These texts are really dangerous,

because there’s always a

possibility, that even very smart

person can start to believe it. For

example, alien theories are very

known and common in our

society, there’s really lots of

people who believe in that. Also,

there’s clubs, groups and

organization around the world

who truly believe that alien

exists.

The human race has come far by

examining and thinking about all

possibilities no matter how

abstract and improbable they are

But this has the disadvantage

that we sometimes are led astray

onto path that are not logical.

We should try to fight fake news

in our life. In my opinion,

everyone should start to learn

how to stop fake news in every

day life.

Fake news on Facebook

and YouTube

The fake news

phenomenon has become

more and more popular in

recent years, especially

because people have

become misinformed about

important facts. Because

young people spend a lot of

time on the Internet and on

social networks, fake news

has affected them a lot. A

recent study shows that

Facebook users exposed to

such news are much easier

to manipulate, and their

critical thinking has

decreased significantly.

This is because people are

constantly looking for

spectacular facts, out of the

ordinary and are willing to

believe many articles

without verifying the

source.

Fake news is a method

that newspapers and

magazines often use to

increase their popularity

and make money. Their

problem is that once a site

or facebook page becomes

known for that, people

gradually lose their

confidence and prefer to

use another source.

Because of this, many

Facebook pages are

constantly changing their

names to attract new

readers and to continue

publishing fake content.

Also, another platform

that has become very

popular especially

among young people is

YouTube. If at first this

was a refuge for those who

wanted to avoid the errors

presented on TV, YT

became another means of

propagating fake news. A

common way to get views

is to create catchy titles

that don't really reflect the

content of the article or

video at all. On YT this

phenomenon is known as

clickbait and closely

resembles the problem of

fake news. However, click

baites do not misinform as

much, but the mere fact

that people want to cheat

proves that public

confidence in the media will

drop significantly

That is why and learn to

differentiate between

reality and fake news.

erasmus projects are

recommended for the non-

formal way in which they

approach this subject and

for the involvement they

prove.

Democracy at a

discount on the Fake

News market.

The concept of fake

news is now widely used

to describe the state of

confusion and weakness

we are experiencing.

Particularly in politics,

everyone is referring to fake

news, even those who have

often been caught reproducing

lies.

Isn't it curious how

everyone criticises them,

how everyone is against fake

news, and no one admits to

either relaying, using, or

producing fake news? It's like

the gods, or the universe is

conspiring against us, and fake

news are spread as a natural

phenomenon, more like a

disease. This problem is no

new at all, everybody knows or

at least everybody suspects

the sad truth. Politicians use

them to serve robust business,

political and geopolitical

interests. One would say that

it's all about securing their

governing power and the

humiliation of their opponents.

At the same time, the

influence of the

commercialised media grows,

the real political power

declines and politicians are

being replaced. The political

electorates are now called

directors or communication

specialists. It's obvious

anyway, in today's

parliaments there is no

democratic victory but only

battles for the best direction.

In practice, censorship has

now given space to other

techniques of hiding the

truth and new methods of

undermining critical

thinking. Each one of us is a

mobile media outlet

because we not only

consume but also produce

fake news. We who dig the

hole, fall into. We,

ourselves, undermine our

intelligence and eat spoon-

fed food without wondering

about its chemicals.

What’s the tragic result,

though? All the primary

and critical decisions of

the world are now taken

based on fake news. As

Ancient Greeks used to say,

whoever learns something

doesn’t yet own the

knowledge of it. So, we

have to dig for the truth,

discover knowledge and

protect themselves from

the yellow type. Anyhow,

the right knowledge can

only lead to right decisions

and for the world’s shake,

that can only be called a

necessity.

The Problems

Surrounding Hungary’s

“Slavery Law”: Fake

News?

The Hungarian

parliament adopted, an

amendment to the labor

law, including the increase

of the number of legal

overtime hours per year

from 250 to 400 maximum

(a misleading broad range

used by the opposition,

since not everyone is

concerned by the 400

maximum) in December 12,

2018.

The liberal opposition

disrupted the vote, and a

demonstration was

called immediately in front

of the parliament for the

same evening.

Demonstrations organized

by liberal and pro-Brussels

opposition parties. Several

police officers were injured,

dozens of people were

arrested, and street

furniture was degraded.

The Christmas tree and the

children’s sleds

surrounding it were

vandalized but saved in

extremis by the police.

1. No, the law that has

just been passed in the

Hungarian Parliament does

not impose a requirement

for employees to

work unpaid overtime, but

simply increases (by about

one third) the number

of paid hours one can be

asked to work overtime;

therefore, the “slave law”

nickname that the

opposition press has hung

on it is, to say the least,

exaggerated.

2. No, no “masses” have

materialized in the streets

of Budapest. Despite the

exaggerations of said press

(which are widely repeated

abroad – in particular by a

Romanian press which

simultaneously turns its back

on the French Yellow Vests …),

the demonstrations against

the “slave law” (as aerial

photos would easily prove)

have merely consisted of a few

hundred or, at most, a

thousand people. With only

structural unemployment left

(i.e., nearly all employable

people are already employed),

the Hungarian labor market is

now dominated by the

employees. It’s therefore a

sure bet that most of the

protesters are not personally

affected by the new law.

Once the propaganda has

been swept away, it would

be interesting to view this new

Hungarian development in the

broader context of those

continental European

countries which are burdened

with a disastrous birth rate

and yet are still seeking to

limit the influx of non-

European immigrants: for

example, Austria’s 60-hour

work week, or Russia’s

increase of the age of

retirement. In the long run,

one may wonder whether their

plans to preserve the ethnic

identities of their respective

countries will remain

compatible with the needs of

capitalism, which, by

destroying family values in the

industrialized countries, is

tacitly demanding the

globalization of the workforce.

To sum up we can empathize

that while Hungarian

opposition spread the fake

news in order to weaken the

ruling party. In the meantime,

Hungarian government used

this statement again to

mention the immigration

problem of Europe on its own

favor.

Does Conte agree wish

Masons?

According to one of the

most recent (and absurd)

hoaxes circulating on

social media, Giuseppe

Conte would exchange with

other influential

personalities of the

economic-political world of

the "Masonic handshakes".

The image that would

confirm this obscure

conspiracy is a photograph

of the meeting between the

Italian Prime Minister and

Christine Lagarde,

operational director of the

International Monetary

Fund, who will also be the

new president of the

European Central Bank, the

first woman in history in

that role from November. In

particular, according to the

proponents of this theory, it

is precisely the position of

Conte's hand to reveal the

existence of a Masonic

agreement between the two

powerful leaders.

First of all, however, it is

certainly not an oddity

that two institutional

figures know each other

and greet each other in

a friendly tone and

shake hands.

Furthermore, Conte's

handshake is not at all

Masonic because, even

wanting to comply with the

absurd conspiracies, it

should be noted that the

taking is not at all carried

out by hand, but is more

likely the result of a quick

and informal greeting in

which one is he takes the

hand without paying much

attention to the perfect

position of the wrists and

fingers. And then, if it really

was a secret gesture of

understanding, who would

ever do it on a public

occasion and in front of a

photographer's lens?