DANLAMI, PSALM

This study focused on The Impact of Fake News on the Society. The main objective of this study is to find out the impact of fake news on the Nigeria Society. The study was built around the Agenda Setting Theory and the Hypodermic Needle Theory. The study adopted the survey research methods as its research design and employed questionnaire as data collection instrument for the study. The population of the study is 202, 567 but the sample size is 40 which is determined with the use of the Taro Yamane's equation. Out of the 400 questionnaire administered, all was retrieved and useful for the research. This was aided using the purposive sampling technique. The study found out that the public depend on media, mostly the social media platform for information. The study also shows that many people come across fake news often and it has had a negative impact on them. This research also revealed that the media is part of disseminating fake news. The study also recommends that both media and the public should desist from dissemination of fake news by promoting real news and the truth.