Hacktivism Intent—Eric W 1B

Fake News Experiment:

Background:

For my project I wanted to bring awareness to the potential for fake news on social media. What I wanted to do is make a fake news organizations that I would publish a couple of stories on there that would be believable enough that people wouldn’t really think twice about the facts but crazy enough that made people talk about the news in the article.After, this I would share one of those articles on a platform like Facebook. I will track to see who shares the article and who makes comments on this article. After a few days I will eventually come out and tell people that the article was fake and that people should really fact check the articles that they share on social media so prevent an influx of fake news in society.

Budget:

The cost on this project would be very minimal cost to myself or the user. The only monetary cost to me would be the cost of hosting the website. After the site is live the only cost would be my time of writing the stories as well as distributing them onto the social media platforms.

Webhost: $26(monthly)

Time : $50

End Goal:

For this project my objective is to bring a understanding to the general public that not everything you read online is real or should be trusted. I think if people get caught in my so called “trap” that they would be more likely to look into the source they are using for their news. This project might push people to look across the aisle to look for contradicting stories.