Running head: FAKE NEWS BE PUNISHABLE 1
All Fake News Should be Punishable by law
Xiaofei Song
Saginaw State Valley University
FAKE NEWS BE PUNISHABLE 2
All Fake News Should be Punishable by law
Is fake news a major problem in the society, recently? Of course, it is. What is the
definition of fake news? According to Collins, fake news is “false, often sensational, information
disseminated under the guise of news reporting” (as cited in Flood, 2017). Fake news is able to
bring society the issues. Most people are easily to trust news from online or television, fake news
is one of them. The appearance of fake news is noiseless. Human have been accustomed to grab
information from several types news. In the past, what the news reporter says that people believe,
so the appearance of fake news is reasonable. In addition, fake news brings lot bad things to the
society, such as crisis, negative effect, and much social stress. According to Dewey “Paul Horner,
the 38-year-old impresario of a Facebook fake-news empire, has made his living off viral news
