Abstract
Hoaxes and their spread in social media have led various politicians led to legal issues and a few of them have born legal jail or financial consequences due to hoaxes and other fake news. These should have been avoidable if the fake news makers have understood two essential points. Firstly, understanding and loyalty to politically correct communication when communicating in public evading ethnic, religion, race, inter-group, and sexual orientation of the communication partners. Secondly, understanding the textual and linguistic features of fake news and refraining themselves from spreading them becomes essential. Theoretically, every text produced and reproduced by the news makers serve certain social functions, textual structures, and linguistic features. Functionally, hoax news is produced and reproduced for the purpose of spreading incorrect and untrue information about certain political issues so that readers change their mind or political affiliation. Such political agenda are textually engineered within the textual structure which is in turn realized within certain types of sentences, clauses, phrases, and words.
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