What tells a lie story in an interesting. Unlike other examples, it is often made without explicit malicious intent and is not always recognized as fake news. However, it is possible that what you telling as a joke will be recognized as true and you will unintentionally deceive the person who received the information. It is also an act that should be avoided.
There is a Windsor Effect. It is a word that expresses the psychological effect that the credibility of the evaluation increases when the evaluation is communicated through a third party rather than being evaluated directly by the person. The weaker the connection between the third party who conveys the evaluation and the person who is evaluated, the less profit the evaluation will make for the evaluation side. Therefore, the other party often feels that it is highly credible.
An incident in which a joke that a high school student told a friend was misunderstood
and spread, causing a big run on the bank.
The beginning of the matter was that when a high school student who got a job at
Toyokawa Bank made a friend of the story, the friend of the high school student made fun
of "The credit union is dangerous (because a robbery may come)". This wasn't important
because it was just a joke, but a high school student who took it seriously asked his family,
"Is the credit union dangerous?"
After that, family of high school students consulted with another person, and that person
spread as rumors to another person. Furthermore, as the story spread, the content of the
story changed to "Is it dangerous?", "Maybe dangerous", and "dangerous". And rumors
quickly spread widespread due to this and chance. The story that "the credit union is
dangerous" was easily changed to the story that "Asahikawa credit union collapses".
People who believed in the rumors withdraw large amounts of deposits from banks,
eventually spreading to a panic of withdrawing 2 million yen in deposits and savings.
If what someone said as a joke was misunderstood, it is often the case that the person who made the joke is not malicious. Especially when you make a joke on SNS such as Twitter, it is difficult to convey the exact nuance in the characters unlike the reality, so the recipient may not regard as a joke and it may become a serious problem. In that case, even conversations that make you laugh with jokes may cause "flaming" on SNS, which may have a great impact on your real life.
"I'm heading to Africa. I hope I don't get AIDS. I'm kidding. I just said. I can't. I'm white!"(cited from "東洋経済オンライン")
This is a free translation of a sentence posted on Twitter by a woman who worked for a
major company. The woman did not specifically post to discriminate against blacks, but
rather tweeted this sentence with the meaning of self-deprecation against herself as a
white. Also, if someone who knew her saw this tweet, they would soon know that it wasn't
serious. In fact, It wasn't very responsive for tens of minutes after being posted, and she
boarded the plane.
But shortly thereafter, the tweet was spread in huge quantities. Her Twitter account was
filled with tweets criticizing her, and her company tweeted that she was "too insane", telling
her that she was on a plane. In addition, the current position of the plane she was on was
broadcast in real time, and even a person who went to the landing airfield and tried to take
a picture appeared.
Unlike other grades, fake news related to satire and parody is the only thing that can not
be maliciously made. Therefore, people who unintentionally send fake news often become
victims, and especially if they are left on SNS etc., there is a high possibility that they will
remain on the net for a long time. Also, since it is often the case that false facts such as the
"Windsor effect" that have been spread no matter how much the person denies continue to
be believed, it is not possible to completely erase the fake news that has been spread
once.
In addition, as in the cases mentioned above, the jokes that are common to friends and
acquaintances are often spread to many people and become fake news. The cause is the
act of "spreading", and the main cause of fake news is spreading to others without thinking
deeply, especially on SNS. Therefore, when introducing something to people and spreading
it on SNS etc. (not limited to that), it is necessary to think deeply and then act in a society
where the modern Internet is widespread.