Citizen journalism : between fake news and true news

Abstract EN

Social media networks have given citizen journalists the opportunity to participate in the production and dissemination of news stories in various areas of life.

That is why our paper came to shed light on the concept of fake news, its types, areas of dissemination, its effects, and the strategy used to confront it and reduce its spread in these social networks.

This study reached the most important results, the most important of which is that the phenomenon of fabricated news takes several forms and affects all fields and is characterized by its wide and rapid spread and has negative effects on various levels, which made it necessary for all parties to the media process to participate, including citizen journalists, professional journalists and legal legislation in confronting it and limiting it as it has been distorted and diluted.

Citizen journalism and deviated from the right media track.