#Make a fake app how to#
I have chatted with my kids about how to identify fake news, and to question news that “just doesn’t make sense.” Last year when Donald Trump was running for President, my daughter who is 10, told me that she does not like Donald Trump since he called Canadians “snow mexicans.” I said that there was no way that he would ever really say that, and that it was fake news, so we went to Google and found the Snopes article debunking the myth and explaining how it started with a fake tweet. It was installed at 2:34 pm and then uninstalled at 2:41pm so I’m sure that my son was just checking it out, likely based on the chatter of school friends or simple curiosity. They look real, but theyre fake, which also makes them perfect for safe, commercial use. They offer AI-generated people images, created on the basis of your needs for age, gender, and ethnicity among other details. I got the Boomerang Parental Control daily report for my 14 year old’s usage yesterday and under ‘Recently Installed Apps’, I saw an App that concerned me: Fake Chat (Direct Message) ! I looked up what Fake Chat does and it creates a real-looking chat thread between any two people that you want, for example Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump. If youre into creating fake people photos, Generated Photos is perfect for you. Choose a category and color scheme Add the features. It turns out that it’s very easy to use apps to create fake news. Build an app without coding in 3 easy steps using Appy Pie app builder Enter your app name.
As parents, we hear about fake news all the time but have you ever thought about how easy it is in this digital age to manufacture fake news? I just received some education on this and yes, there’s an App for that.