How to encounter fake news as a journalist
- Xin Yi Foo
- Nov 29, 2018
- 2 min read

Firstly, I will inform my news organization and other local and international news organization about the interview at 8pm with the anonymous source is not true. After informing, I will use my verified twitter account and verified news organization twitter account to make a disclaimer about that there will not being any interview about Jho Low’s where about in 8pm.I will ask other journalists of the news agency to retweet the posts. An article will be posted in the official website of the news organization claiming that it is not true that our news agency will hold an interview regarding Jho Low’s whereabout. The article will be set as the main post for the Facebook account and I will also use the twitter account for the news agency to repost the link of the article. Instagram account of the news agency will be also posting Instagram story disclaiming that there will not be interviews at 8pm. The Instagram story will be written as “ Interested about where is Jho Low at 8pm? Sorry that’s not true” and a link for the article will be posted at the end of the Instagram story. The disclaimer will also be announced at the official Youtube channel or the TV station owned by the news agency. The news will be repeated on the news ticker of those channels. To satisfy the curiosity of the readers, the news agency will come out with the summary of Jho Low’s latest trend. After a few days, the news agency will come out with campaigns teaching readers to differentiate fake news such as the campaign by New York Times and the column specified by Sin Chew Daily to specified fake news.
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