In the new digital age, everyone can post their thought, feeling or idea online, which means that everyone can be a reporter right now. With the development of social media. The gatekeeper has been disappeared for a long time. For example, I can write anything in this blog, no matter its fake or real, I can still publish this blog without examine by the gatekeeper.

Facebook, as one of the biggest platform for people to share their life, Facebook made a bridge to connect people who came from different countries. People can also check other countries’s news from Facebook, it does bring lots of convenient to us. However, without the gatekeeper, there are huge amounts of fake news exist because everyone can publish their idea without examine, a lot of people were deceived by fake news.

However, people should have the ability to distinguish the news is fake or real. Although we don’t have gatekeeper in social media, if we have enough general knowledge, we can be the gatekeeper for today’s social media. Report the news or article if you think it is fake, to make the message online be more trusted.