Evaluate What You Read!
- From “Googling Is Believing: Trumping the Informed Citizen” by Michael P. Lynch, March 9, 2016:
"...searching the Internet can get you to information that would back up almost any claim of fact, no matter how unfounded. It is both the world’s best fact-checker and the world’s best bias confirmer — often at the same time." - From Oxford Dictionaries:
"POST-TRUTH" was announced by Oxford English Dictionary as a word of the year in 2016. By definition this adjective is "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief". - From Pew Research Center. "News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2016." by Jeffrey Gottfried and Elisa Shearer:
A majority of U.S. adults – 62% – get news on social media, and 18% do so often, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center, conducted in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In 2012, based on a slightly different question, 49% of U.S. adults reported seeing news on social media.
As part of an ongoing examination of social media and news, Pew Research Center analyzed the scope and characteristics of social media news consumers across nine social networking sites. This study is based on a survey conducted Jan. 12-Feb. 8, 2016, with 4,654 members of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel. - The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News OnlinePictures how information landscape will shape politics about information and people communications in future
- Social Media Fact Sheet - 2019Today around seven-in-ten Americans use social media to connect with one another, engage with news content, share information and entertain themselves. Explore the patterns and trends shaping the social media landscape over the past decade below.
Fake News
- Information CheckersTo check rumors or false news use
- From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece by Scott Shane, January 18, 2017.The article tells you a story how fake news were created and influenced the public opinion.
- Many Americans Believe Fake News Is Sowing Confusion:
Many Americans Believe Fake News Is Sowing Confusion: 23% say they have shared a made-up news story – either knowingly or not.This report was written By Michael Barthel, Amy Mitchell and Jesse Holcomb and published December 15, 2016.
How to Spot Fake News - by Eugene Kiely and Lori Robertson
- How to Spot Fake News - by Eugene Kiely and Lori RobertsonFake news is nothing new. But bogus stories can reach more people more quickly via social media than what good old-fashioned viral emails could accomplish in years past.
Fake News in the United States
Hoaxes
- Wikipedia published the list of its hoaxes:
Do not be a victim of hoaxes, always use a variety of resources from different creators.
Stanford Report
THE BIG PICTURE
"When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience. However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak."