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Why the fake news article is more attract than true story? Social media growing so fast because of technology. So some people want to defame someone or some companies, they will use a salient exemplar in the article then let the readers to believe the story is reality. In those articles, the authors told us people what event to cause those people dies in the cinema. When people use upload something in the media, they don’t need to spend too much time. Only a few minutes, all readers will know what happen on their environment. Then, no one care about the news is true or not. For example, inside a story “Can fake news on social media be stopped?”
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In the social media not only have Facebook. We can use different kinds of websites online. The people can use different ways to spread article full of misinformation. That’s why no one can’t easily stop fake news on social media. Otherwise, we can’t find more information to support those articles are real or not. In “Woman Dies in Cinema While Watching “it” Remake?” the author shows the readers about the woman who see a horror movie. According to witnesses, the woman let out a large scream and then collapsed in her seat. In September 2017, SundayPost.org published at least three fakes news articles claiming that a woman died during a screening or the movie It. All of these articles were nearly verbatim copies of one another, except for the name of the city where the death. The web site QualitySharing.com, for instance, upped the death count to 43 when they posted a similar story: A packed theatre in Haddonfield, New York watched an advanced screening of IT and they had to cut the movie short after several people. The author uploads this story to let the readers belief the woman who saw “IT”, and dies …show more content…
Then, the readers are afraid to go to cinema because they don’t want to die. The article “Syrace Woman dies in cinema while watching IT remake By David Foster. Last updated Sep 11, 2017. Repots a 41-years-old woman died in a Syracuse cinema a auditorium Saturday while watching a screening of Stephen Kings. Foster has example describes what kind of “IT” movie“ about, such as an ancient, shape-shifting evil that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town’s children. While watching a screening of Stephen Kings horror movie remake, IT. The incident occurred at Regal Cinemas in Syracuse, New York. The cinema-goer attended the new release screening with friends and had complained of chest pains and difficulty breathing during one the film’s climax scenes. The author adds “The woman’s friends called EMTs however by the time they arrived the woman was unresponsive and died at the scene” (Foster). Reports the woman can’t wait for the EMTs coming and dies in the cinema. This events reveal IT is the horror thing, no one can control handle it. The author spreads fake news to readers, and let the readers give up to go to cinema. Thus, the readers who belief to see IT, and dies. They will never come to cinema anymore. Meanwhile, fake news article can reduce the cinema business volume, and can’t earn

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