Özet:

New media causes significant changes in news consumption habits. Due to the user-based structure of new media, this new area leads to the emergence of new dimensions in the problem of news reliability. As the world enters the information age along with the internet many problems arise, indicating that it has entered the “age of misinformation”. In recent years, news retrieval habits have largely changed through digital tools to social media and messaging applications and disinformation in this uncontrolled area has led to a new break in confidence in the news. It is known that specific approaches are needed to overcome this break that damages people's connection with the truth that is, to ensure reliable news access. Based on the development of media literacy it is important for the reader/viewer to have fact checking reflexes to combat misinformation and fake news. In this study, it was tried to determine the trends of news consumption in new media, the level of trust in news, the attitude towards false information/false news and the reflexes of doubt/fact checking of young people who are the widest user audience of social media. At the end of the survey conducted with Selcuk University students, it was determined that the structure of social media affects the increase in fake news/misinformation and thus journalism is increasingly losing confidence, political polarization is an important reason for believing in fake news and people think that its connection with truth is weakening. It has been found that users who find platforms, legislative and judicial institutions insufficient to combat the problem of false news often need to verify news on social media but their awareness of fact checking methods is still low.

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