Questão 3798349

• Banca: FATEC
• Órgão: FATEC
• Ano: 2018
• Provas: FATEC - 2018 - FATEC - Vestibular
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

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Technology brought us fake news — and it will help us kill it

     “Fake news” - websites disseminating news stories that are false but are believed to be true – was a major feature of the U.S. election season. Some observers believe that it determined the outcome of the election, although there is no way to definitively ascertain its effect on voting.

     Fake news is news that affects the digital universe profoundly. Fake news grew because of the ease of creating and disseminating websites and stories that look and read as credible as real news sites (at least to many people). It is disseminated on social media platforms just because dissemination of information without vetting has always been a feature of those platforms. This was designed to facilitate communication - no one removes a negative comment about a restaurant on Facebook. 

      On the positive side, this means that everyone’s opinion can be disseminated. The awareness of fake news, though, reveals a downside – or perhaps a loophole – of the freedom to post. And fake news may beget¹ fake news. Facebook is not the only media company to be an inadvertent host for fake news, but it is by far the largest, with roughly 2 billion users each month.

    Forbes  indicates that the fallout² from fake news during the election cycle may cause advertisers to pull back from Facebook, as it is less “brand safe” than formerly. If unchecked, fake news could impact the perceived credibility of online sites where fake news runs. Since the election, Facebook has announced plans to refine and increase automated detection of fake news and to make reporting of suspected stories easier for Facebook users. It has also indicated that the current ad system will be changed, to interfere with fake news sites receiving revenue from Facebook.

<https://tinyurl.com/y8jfq2t4> Acesso em: 07.11.2017. Adaptado

Glossário

beget ¹: gerar, criar, produzir.

fallout² efeitos negativos.

A respeito do papel do Facebook na disseminação de fake news, pode-se afirmar corretamente, tendo por base o texto apresentado, que

• A. o Facebook, apesar de possibilitar a liberdade de expressão, não serviu como meio de divulgação de fake news pelo fato de ter muitos usuários.
  
• B. a diminuição do número de usuários do Facebook, fato explicado pelo surgimento de outras companhias de mídia tão grandes ou até maiores, fez da rede uma fonte de fake news.
  
• C. Facebook, mesmo tendo assumido uma postura inicialmente positiva com relação a fake news, viu-se forçado a mudar de estratégia, exercendo a censura explícita de conteúdos.
  
• D. cerca de 2 bilhões de usuários por mês participam, mesmo que indiretamente, da disseminação de fake news em virtude da tendência humana de se comprazer com tragédias.
  
• E. o Facebook, por ter um elevado número de usuários, tornou-se a maior companhia de mídia a hospedar fake news, contribuindo, para isso, a política de liberdade de expressão do site.
  

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