With "Fake News" and a bad reputation for the term, I think it is fair to ask: Has journalism been trusted again

With "Fake News" and a bad reputation for the term, I think it is fair to ask: Has journalism been trusted again? So many years have passed that blurred everybody's vision. But thanks to some excellent reporters and cooperative news sources, we might have a chance. Will it be a good enough time? We will soon find out.

It's been more than four years since President Trump tweeted the phrase "Fake News" for the first time. Since then, this loaded phrase has appeared on his Twitter account over 1,000 times.

And yet, it seems that the term has lost its power.

It is now being used by Trump critics to deride false news stories and any news that they deem unfavorable to their plan, but even Trump himself has stopped using it as much as he once did. According to a report by The New York Times in late 2020, the use of the term dropped from a high of 15 tweets per month to less than one tweet per month by January 2021.

So what happened? In short: it became meaningless. When you call everything fake and everyone a liar, those words lose their meaning. When someone calls you a liar on Twitter, and you've called everyone else who disagrees with you a liar on Twitter, suddenly there's no difference between your lies and theirs—and if there's no difference between your lies and theirs, it doesn't make sense for anyone to listen to either of you.

Fake news may be a thing of the past, thanks to the presidential election. Following the election of Donald Trump in 2016, it was discovered that a Russian-backed political troll campaign had been running on Facebook and other platforms for months before the election, spreading fake news and disinformation to millions of voters.

Since then, social media platforms have attempted to fight back against this content, with mixed results. While Facebook has been able to identify and remove most of those accounts, they've also been criticized for not doing enough to prevent similar campaigns from taking place in the future.

What's more, there are still plenty of other sources for fake news: websites that deliberately spread misinformation about political candidates or issues as clickbait or for some other nefarious purpose. And even mainstream news outlets can fall into this category if they're reporting inaccurate information based on anonymous sources or speculation from experts who have no idea what they're talking about (see: Russian influence on our current President).

Is fake news a word from history?

Has journalism been trusted again with the most recent election of Joe Biden as the President of the United  States that many people have on their minds? Since Donald Trump was elected in 2016, he has always accused the media of being unfair toward him. He once even went so far as to say it was the "enemy of the American people."

However, with Biden's victory and Trump's concession, people may have more reason to trust reputable news sources again. With this in mind, perhaps fake news will slowly fade away into irrelevance as we move forward into a new era.

Russia and Putin went another way. 

As soon as Vladimir Putin became president, he began to put pressure on the Russian media. He realized that without control of the media, it would be impossible to consolidate his power. The structure and methods of state propaganda have remained almost unchanged for 20 years. In this article the author will look at the main stages of Putin's war with Russia's press and show some details of Kremlin propaganda.

Vladimir Putin has long been known for his firm grasp on Russian media. Under his leadership, the country's media has been shaped into a propaganda machine that benefits the government and paints an extremely biased picture of Russia to its own people. Leading Russian journalists have been maimed or killed for speaking out against these practices and for reporting the truth about Putin and his allies.

The Kremlin owns several major news agencies, including TASS, RIA Novosti, and ITAR-TASS. These sources often report on subjects such as the war in Ukraine, ISIS, and American politics. They are also known to employ fake news stories in order to influence public opinion on world events. If a topic is not suited to their narrative, they will simply ignore it. Putin also has control over many other major news agencies through oligarchs friendly with him who are willing to cooperate with his policies.

For example, when anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny published a video accusing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of corruption, the Kremlin ordered all media outlets not to report it. However, Navalny posted the video on YouTube; then it became so popular that every source was forced to cover it anyway.

Wonder how the world would have been now, if Trump had won the election, and with Putin's war in Ukraine? A horrifying thought! 

The world is changing fast. How can we trust a world that we see each day? How can we find a way to change our minds?

We have the ability to change this world, to make it a better place. Together we can find the proper course of action and bring a meaningful change.

There is no other way to survive. We need to start over, rebuild the world, and hope and work for a better tomorrow.

We are the future!