Social media networks have given citizen journalists the opportunity to participate in
the production and dissemination of news stories in various areas of life. That is why our
paper came to shed light on the concept of fake news, its types, areas of dissemination, its
effects, and the strategy used to confront it and reduce its spread in these social networks.
This study reached the most important results, the most important of which is that the
phenomenon of fabricated news takes several forms and affects all fields and is
characterized by its wide and rapid spread and has negative effects on various levels, which
made it necessary for all parties to the media process to participate, including citizen
journalists, professional journalists and legal legislation in confronting it and limiting it as it
has been distorted and diluted. Citizen journalism and deviated from the right media track.