Hey. I`m Carl Azuz for CNN STUDENT NEWS.

大家好，我是卡尔·阿祖兹，为您播报CNN学生新闻。

We`re starting today with an issue for millions of people, especially through social media. The wildfire spread of fake news. These are stories you read about that appeared to be factual but in fact have no basis in fact at all.

我们今天首要谈论的话题和数百万人相关，尤其是通过社交渠道。虚假新闻的大肆蔓延，你读到的一些故事看似真实，但是实际上毫无根据可言。

For example, before the U.S. presidential election, a number of false stories circulated online. What appeared to show Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton about to receive thousands of fraudulent ballots in her favor. One appeared to show a quote from 1998 in which Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump trashed the very people who`d become his own voters.

例如，在美国总统选举之前，网上流传很多虚假报道。这些报道似乎表明民主党候选人希拉里·克林顿刻意制造上万张虚假选票。还有报道表明，唐纳德·特朗普抛弃自己的选民。

To be clear, neither of these stories was true. But they still went viral. Experts say making sure a story is from a reliable news source, watching out for headlines that don`t match article itself and avoiding sharing information from a single site you`ve never heard of can help curb a growing problem.

需要澄清的是，这些故事都是假的。但是他们仍然再继续蔓延。专家表示，小心新闻标题党：新闻的内容和新闻的标题并不相符，不要从单一网站分享这类信息，可帮助抑制这种日渐嚣张的问题。

Hey. I`m Carl Azuz for CNN STUDENT NEWS.

We`re starting today with an issue for millions of people, especially through social media. The wildfire spread of fake news. These are stories you read about that appeared to be factual but in fact have no basis in fact at all.

For example, before the U.S. presidential election, a number of false stories circulated online. What appeared to show Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton about to receive thousands of fraudulent ballots in her favor. One appeared to show a quote from 1998 in which Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump trashed the very people who`d become his own voters.

To be clear, neither of these stories was true. But they still went viral. Experts say making sure a story is from a reliable news source, watching out for headlines that don`t match article itself and avoiding sharing information from a single site you`ve never heard of can help curb a growing problem.