1984 False News Analysis

Fake news is a false news in which the content has been changed or made up in order to gain popularity and money, turn down a news organization or a website, lower an individual’s dignity, or change people’s opinion toward a specific event, based on the intent of the person claiming it. There are several websites such as Danger and Play that make up news and share it with people. This mode of news is devastating and the danger it has might sometimes be horrifying. This is what happened in the world of 1984. Winston’s job in the Ministry of Truth was to change the History and present the new history, made by, and in favor of, the government, to the people. The result was that people were unaware of what was going on in their country and nobody
The reason for that is that Winston, who is the main character in the book 1984, and his colleagues’ job in the Ministry of Truth was to change the truth in the daily news in a way where it suited the Party and its rules; however, in that world, people only had one source of news and that was what the Party shared with them. As a result of this, it made them more vulnerable to what they were told. In such a society, people have no idea of what the truth is; they believe in what they read. This is not a positive thing because it makes the party look proficient although they did a terrible job. Fake news is an alteration of the fact and changing it to what one may like with an intent to destroy the image of an individual, gain popularity and money, and change someone’s thought toward a specific event. It has a devastating effect in both today’s and 1984’s world because when people do not know the truth, they believe in what they read. They are unaware of the reality. This is worse in 1984 than in today’s world because the government has taken away people’s ability to think by having all sorts of controlling methods, such as Thought Police and