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We have enormous news roaming the internet every day. Sometimes the information gets overloaded and it’s very heavy to gulp down all that is coming our way. Surprisingly, the trend of “fake news” is all in the air; The U.S seems to be one of the biggest victims of it. Last year around October, when Mia Khalifa (Adult actor) compared herself with Malala and the internet went crazy about it, she joked on her Twitter account about how news outlets mistake Malala for Mia.
Recently, another such incident surfaced the internet, but this time it’s not Mia who is joking about anyone. But rather, the internet made a joke about the whole incident. A photo of Mia Khalifa and Pervez Musharaf is circulating on the internet and people are questioning when and where was it taken. After a thorough research from all the Pakistanis, no traces could be found of the place, purpose, and timings.
But now, the truth of the photo has been exposed, where it has been proved that the meeting never took place. Neither Musharaf met Khalifa nor Khalifa met Musharaf for any reason or purpose. Instead, it was a prank someone played on the internet by photoshopping the photo and circulated on the internet. People all over the social media, without giving it a second thought, took the photo to news and made waves on the internet.
Mia Khalifa is a name all Pakistani adults have heard or seen in some way or the other. When people finally declared and accepted the fact that the photo is fake, they further tried to analyze how the “gap” between two is rather inappropriate and the lighting on both is very different. People later realized that if asked by an expert, they too will voice the opinion of the photo being fake.
Mia has been the talk of the town for a very long time. The time she tweeted about herself and Nobel Prize Winner Malala, she was internationally bashed for it. But some went normal with the joke and laughed along with it.
Here’s the notorious tweet…
When a news outlet mistakes Malala for Mia Khalifa pic.twitter.com/TLNVpQTOU7
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) October 21, 2017
The fact that people on the internet take anything as a fact is actually making “news outlets” talk about it. A scandal is just a tweet or a photo away. That’s all it takes. The trend of fake news can build or drop someone in a day or so.
Well, we all can wait for Musharraf’s reply to it and see if the news reaches him and if he thinks it’s worthy enough to respond to it.
