I remember the halcyon days when April Fools' Day was a bit of harmless fun. We'd read fake stories from the newspaper over our cornflakes and have a good chuckle. Fake news was just something that happened once a year. But, those days are gone
We are now living in the age of fake news; where mistruths are presented as truths, and believed at face value. Fake news is no longer a once-yearly event, it's a 365-day-a-year news cycle. And, that's why April Fools' Day needs to die.
"April's Fool Day is a day when you have to constantly engage the critical and sceptical part of the brain so you don't get duped," says Claire Wardle, Director of Research and Strategy of First Draft News. "Now that we are increasingly encountering information that has been fabricated, manipulated or is downright misleading, we need to be engaging those same parts of our brains every day and questioning what we're seeing in our social feeds." Read more...
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