During the COVID-19 pandemic, we are already more susceptible to false claims. Here's how we can we stop falling for and spreading bogus information.
“No doubt tonight there will be out-of-context images of the military. There will be rumors about military presence that maybe isn’t happening. It’s very easy for people to do. They just google images of the military near a protest and circulate those pictures and say: ‘This is whatever city tonight,’" says Peter Adams, senior vice president of education at the News Literacy Project."They hope some of it will stick and go viral. And it takes time for fact checkers to debunk it.
“Every afternoon and every evening brings different protests and different degrees of unrest in different cities. Because social media collapses those distances and brings those images and those video clips together, it can be very hard for people to understand what’s authentic and what’s not,” Adams says.
"Consider the source, which guards you against disinformation, the intentional spread of false information, and consider the source’s source, which guards you against the unintentional or inadvertent spread of false information," Brookie advises.Beware social media posts that deliberately incite fear, strain credulity or play on your emotions.
We instinctively trust images and video, but they can be taken out of context, edited or digitally manipulated. Some"live" footage of protests being shared on social media is on a loop, for example. So check with sources you trust.
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