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.
