Share Fake Photos During Natural Disasters Analysis

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Reflection #2 5 Reasons Why People Share Fake Photos During Natural Disasters By: Daisy Morales Fake photos now linger in the web. These fake photos are created then shared around the internet. Sometimes people don’t even realize its fake, the photos are so convincing its quite hard not to believe them. In the article ,“5 Reasons Why People Share Fake Photos During Natural Disasters”, gives 5 causes why fake photos are created/shared. One reason is that it has been drilled in our heads that anything on the internet is true. We are taught to think if it’s on the internet it must have gone through some type of validation to be posted on the media. The second reason is that we, people, are entitled to our own opinions and beliefs so when there

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