Abstract
Social media is a powerful source of
information. The spread of fake news on social media has both immediate and
long-term effects on its users, who may be reluctant to share and post genuine
news for fear that it, will be misrepresented. This study examines five visual
fake news images that were selected for investigation from a variety of social
media sources. Multimodal discourse analysis theories are used to evaluate fake
news photographs and explain their meaning potential by using the three
semiotic functions of - representational, interactional, and compositional. The
most essential goals of the fake news image are to invite cooperation and
persuasion in the social relationships between the personalities and the
viewers. The use of news captions, positive language, questions, and short
phrases are the main features of the analyzed fake news discovered.
Keywords: Multimodal, Discourse, Fake News, Three Meta-functions
DOI: 10.36349/zamijoh.2023.v02i02.003
author/ Bello Alim Babi
journal/Zamfara IJOH Vol. 2, Issue 2
