Another related article to this one. Fake claims going so far as to claim people's identities, which makes it easier to refute except the people falling for it don't go outside their social media bubbles so will never learn of or believe the refutations.
Anything that promotes skepticism is good. When I read an article like this, I don't know if the article has political motives for which it is willing to embellish the truth, or use a real issue to insert some false claims inbetween, or whether this is all true which also seems very likely in this case.
I think everyone and anyone can fall for falsified facts if these facts fit one's own expected narratives or political beliefs.
This article highlights how people can br taken, especially when it is politically convenient.
I try to get as good as I can at developing my nose and sniffing out fake news on my side as well as "the other side" , and honestly I see it on both sides. It's definitely easier to pick up on it when it's on the "other" side!
Fake news is not going away, because even most fact checkers have examples where it seems they deliberately lied - ie. abuse their position of trust as a fact checker for political purposes!
The X community notes feature seems like a good idea. It's probably far from foolproof. I must say, I love comment sections on all platforms that have them! So many times I wasn't sure about the truthfulness of piece of content, then after reading the comments I had a much better sense of whether it is fake or real.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/10/21/tim...
Another related article to this one. Fake claims going so far as to claim people's identities, which makes it easier to refute except the people falling for it don't go outside their social media bubbles so will never learn of or believe the refutations.
Anything that promotes skepticism is good. When I read an article like this, I don't know if the article has political motives for which it is willing to embellish the truth, or use a real issue to insert some false claims inbetween, or whether this is all true which also seems very likely in this case.
I think everyone and anyone can fall for falsified facts if these facts fit one's own expected narratives or political beliefs.
This article highlights how people can br taken, especially when it is politically convenient.
I try to get as good as I can at developing my nose and sniffing out fake news on my side as well as "the other side" , and honestly I see it on both sides. It's definitely easier to pick up on it when it's on the "other" side!
Fake news is not going away, because even most fact checkers have examples where it seems they deliberately lied - ie. abuse their position of trust as a fact checker for political purposes!
The X community notes feature seems like a good idea. It's probably far from foolproof. I must say, I love comment sections on all platforms that have them! So many times I wasn't sure about the truthfulness of piece of content, then after reading the comments I had a much better sense of whether it is fake or real.
Maybe the real tragedy is people believing the accusations.