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The Influence of Fake News on Different Countries

Classified briefings in the summer of 2016 from the CIA indicate that Russia attempted to elect Donald Trump as president of the United States. Later that month, a special EU task force believed that Russia would be using fake news to try and influence several key elections in Europe during 2017. The EU wants to allot more funds in effort to combat the disinformation. This is after fear that Russia will target various elections involving France, Germany and the Netherlands. “There is an enormous, far-reaching, at least partly organized, disinformation campaign against the EU, its politicians and its principles”.

In March 2017, China used the phrase "Fake News" in the flagship newspaper, Peoples Daily, run by the ruling communist party and used President Donald Trump's well known phrase as they denounced western news coverage of a Chinese lawyer and human rights advocate who had said they had been tortured by the police. A tweet by Peoples Daily reads "Foreign Media reports that police tortured a detained lawyer is FAKE NEWS, fabricated to tarnish china's image". "The stories were essentially fake news", Xinhua wrote, the state run news agency. The Chinese government is known for its long history of denouncing most western news organizations.