Social Media and Fake News: What is the Truth?
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How I learnt it in my polisci class is that you look at multiple types of media, from all sides and then use your critical analysis skills to come to a conclusion. If there's research related to it, you read the research too
Mind blowing what's been going on these past few years in particular, thanks for this, great vid
Honestly, its kind of scary to think that one person of power making a false statement can make an enormous group of supporters based of one lie.
I try to check any news on 3-5 different sources
1. Usually a very similarly minded news company.
2. One on the opposite side of the political spectrum.
3. One source in the middle.
optional
4. One news company based in a different country that won't be affected by the news being delivered.
5. One more source from Switzerland.
If any article cites sources double check them.
If there are any scientific papers I'll read them to see if they are lying with statistics.
Every site asks about privacy/cookies. If I select no I generally have to go through lots of shit every time. HOW DO I STOP!! Your content is eye opening and user friendly btw.
Something that's been on my mind for a looong time, thank you for putting it into words!
Thank you for the videos you make! This is so important. Side note, I can't wait until you release more music!
I really just search the stuff I'm fact-checking elsewhere. I hop on my search engine and try to find several articles from publishers I recognize saying the same things. I also try to make sure that any dates mentioned in the social media post match the articles.
Governments are controlled by people in their 60s and 70s. It's like trying to tell Grandpa how to use a DVD player even though nobody uses DVD players anymore. That's why we need more young people who understand the technology in government
I wish I could travel and learn the truth other then the possibility of lies and misinformation on the social platforms and media. I just want to know the truth.
Click on the links in the story you read online. Follow into the rabbit hole and check their source. Is it a recognized source or is it a blog or opinion writer. Check the authors other work for bias too. Thats some of the things I check when I'm sent stories or see things on the Internet.
Answering your cut scene question: Assume that everything is a lie until prove wrong, and crosscheck all information that seems relevant with a lot of sources
There are some scripts that will do random searches to help break the search algorithm and help you get less filtered results
I check for multiple sources surrounding a story, but never social media outlets. I don't spread stuff on any of the social media platforms because I don't trust them at all. I'm akcsl on tiktok.
Loved the video, as always.
It depends on the subject. If it's about Covid or the vaccine I go to the CDC's website and the WHO. And then I go to the pages of actual nurses, physicians, and doctors in the medical field. If it's about stimulus checks, what happened with Wallstreet. I go to pages of actual economists and people who are erudite on finance and economics. If it's a natural disaster, I go to AP (associated press), Reuters, and The New York times. Occasionally the guardian if I can't find anything on the NY times.
Fun fact: it is not possible to write the web address adobserver.org on Facebook. If you try to do that, your message will be immediately blocked (try for yourselves!)
Adobserver is a plugin for Chrome and Firefox, that tracks the adverts that pop-up for you. Or if you prefer, Adobserver tracks those who are tracking you.
A sad truth is that because these algoritms you will probably never get the amount of views that this information deserves :-(
Your song gas too as well... also here for the cut scenes...
I usually try to locate the name of the author, look for more of their articles, check their social media and then see if there's at least 3 more articles that confirm the contents(if its a political article.) If it's sports, like football(soccer for the Americans) or Motorsport I just share after reading the first paragraph and off I go
Thank you I'm an EE junior taking computer science classes and your videos have really given me purpose
Always enjoy hearing what ya have to say!
I subbed to your channel a while ago but this is the first video ive seen pop up for me. I think you're channel is going in a great direction. Ive always learn something from your content. Please continue I'll look for more content.
Love your content. Thank you for shining light to some aspects of life that most people do not spent a second of thinking about this.
How I check:
Look at the source, are they reputable?
Look at the author, who are they and do they have a sales pitch?
Related: check if it's "sponsored" or hidden as being so (not everything demarcates itself as such!)
Check alternative but reputable viewpoints
Here looking for that list always want to get better at vetting information!
You make me think of what would happen if Donna from that 70's show and Felicity Smoak from Arrow had a child
I do a couple things when fact checking information:
1. I always read articles before liking/commenting/sharing. Article titles can be extremely misleading
2. I will always trust a .org/.edu site over a .com site. Furthermore, I check the “about” section of every website to find their statement of purpose.
3. I look into the author of the article if there’s one listed and read other pieces by that author to see if I can piece together where their biases might lean
4. I look to see where the info originated from, and if any other news sites are talking about it
5. I try to find any “studies” listed. Many times, the “studies” they talk about either don’t exist or are studies sponsored by big companies, giving the study an automatic bias towards whatever that company wanted them to find.
6. Look for the date the article was published. Many times, people grab old headlines and pass it off as being current, or as something that was directly influenced by current events (that story about Ford moving operations from Mexico to Ohio comes to mind)
7. Check my own biases. Although it’s probably the hardest thing on this list to do, being aware of your own bias will allow you to better see when you’re falling down a bias hole specifically created for you. Also, confirmation bias is real and can be a real problem.
8. Always assume the story is propaganda, so always ask questions. My favorite question: what do I still not know after reading this article?
Magnificent, Rey, thank you! 🐺
Absolutely love your content
this channel is gold
I do a simple Google
Search to double check info is legit. Then I read multiple sources to check if it makes sense. Sometimes if it infos from over seas if I’m lucky enough to have a friend from there I will ask them what is going on in that part of the world!
Basic out line of my Research method:
1. Find an interesting topic.
2. What is its level of relevance to the world (or discipline that it is a part of)
3. Collect all the information possible. From as many sources as possible.
3a. Make sure to have as many primary sources as possible. Avoid anything below secondary sources.
3b. Make sure to collect information from as many different schools of thought as possible.
4. Verify the reliability of the source.
4a. Are they somebody that is ACTUALLY knowledgeable on the topic? Or, do they claim knowledge?
4b. How much evidence do they present to support this claim of knowledge?
4c. Do they have an agenda?
4d. Are they claims pseudo-scientific or "Alternative Truth" findings?
5. Does this information agree with the current body of knowledge on the topic?
5a. If not, why not?
6. Are they claiming to have found out something new?
6a. How far from established research is this finding?
6b. Is this a finding that can be backed up by empirical evidence?
7. Once information is gathered and interrogated, gather up all relevant parts of research.
8. Put results into a coherent narrative.
8a. This narrative MUST be unbiased and objective.
Awesome video as always!
If I suspect something on social media isn't real, what I typically do is: Google search the social media post, complete with whatever bad grammar and spelling errors that the 'meme' or post had. Often times, I'll find it on Snopes, where they'll tell me the real version of the story. If I don't find it there, I go to snopes directly and start searching for keywords from the post. Typically I'll find some part of it that helps to give me the real story
You gotta do a deep dive on snopes. Very sus.
I really like this format!
A way to counter this extremely important problem imho is to teach kids in school how it is done. Digital Awareness should be a part of the mandatory curriculum from an early age. I am currently trying to convince Canadian education ppl of this, they are subject to the phenomena itself tho which makes for an ironic sitch indeed.
Something that I do to prevent tracking is I use an RSS reader on my computer for CZcams videos, Reddit, Tiktok, Instagram, etc. That way it doesn't know if I saw a specific post or not because RSS links are public, the sites only know which URLS of the posts I open (to read Reddit comments or to see a CZcams video, or things like that).
Edit: Plus RSS articles can be saved offline after they've been downloaded!
About the final part; i'm not using social media for news, i just downloaded a bunch of different news apps
Very informative thank you for this video
This is a great perspective but combining this with how internet connections becoming your whole life after the pandemic is soooo true.
Thank you Rey you are amazing.you look amazing as always . I always check double check triple check info before I let it download to my brain . Love you ❤️
I try to always check at least 3 different sources to filter facts, but i feel like thats the bare minimum i could do. Also recently i've been trying to read more and listen to more stuff that disagrees with my opinion or said topic to see what similarities there are and how vast the difference is just to look at more perspectives. Recognizing that my perspective is not necessarily always "correct" even when it feels like it is.
Thx for the great info. Glad I saw you on tik tok.
Thing is that I thought that I was being very safe with my online activity's but then you pop up in one of my socials. Which means that I probably wasn't being careful enough or that the algorithm thought that I was just more critical in the information that I look at. Either way I am glad that you have popped up in my feed all all though's months ago as I have finally found someone that is spreading the information that I have been trying to tell people to be more aware of.
The things that I try and do are exactly what you laid out in the video. I don't listen to just one news article or one presenter. I have a VPN on all the time that I am connected to the internet and if I am trying to look in more detail to a news article I refresh the VPN IP log out of any services that I am using e.g. google/bing and never 100% trust everything that is posted on social media. If the news story is only hoping up on one news site and social media applications then I don't believe it. And I question everything that is in the article. I look for the research papers that they talk about, basically I go down a rabbit hole of the information that they try and spew out and keep on asking "How?" and "Why?"
The best way for objective information is listening all sides.
Visit websites of both parties, lets' say country A and country B. Try to visit websites written in the local language, just translate them using a translation tool hosted in another country(not A or B) .
In the last few years I met people from different cultures. Europe, Cuba, China, Turkey, USA, etc. There are many good and bad stereotypes for each country. There are good and bad people in every place. People makes the difference, not stereotypes.
I used to debate people that said blondes are stupid. After watching 3 minutes of this video I really regret doing that because if the rest of your kind are anything like you, I have been very very mistaken.
Great video! Keep it up!
Crazy shit man
I try to find alternative media and a far range of all the information to make a informed opinion on the truth. But sadly it's not fool proof but I do my best.
Great video. Really enjoy you explaining stuff. From tik tok.
I would also like to know that, I've been just RTing posts about info from people I trust (scientists/people in the field), but I'd love to know how to be better about it
1. If I'm unsure of the veracity of a news story, I ask myself who benefits from it being true. It might not be that the person writing it is lying, they could have gotten information from someone else who was lying or even just ever so slightly twisting the truth to their benefit. Even subconsciously. If I have multiple, unconnected info sources with no stake in a particular claim being true, I feel more confident in something being true.
2. I try to have a cohesive world view. If I read something that doesn't fit into my understanding of the world without clashing with something else, I'll hold it in a in a kind of idea-purgatory until another piece of information comes along that corroborates it. That clashing feeling tells me either what I learned is wrong, what I previously believed is wrong, or my understanding of the situation was insufficient and after learning more about the topic, the mechanic makes more sense.
3. I really like having friendly arguments with people. Sometimes I'll take one of the points that are in my "idea-purgatory" (nothing potentially dangerous like Q for example) just to try them on for size. There have been many times where I argued a point with someone and it took me writing it out or saying it out loud to understand why my understanding of the topic was wrong. This requires that you commit yourself to arguing *only* in good faith. If you're arguing something that you don't believe because you know it will stump an ideological opponent, you are the problem.
10/10 vid but near the end i thought the background music was a skype call and it gave me a heart attack
1. Look for reference/source material. Go to said source, was it accurately represented. Is this source material trustworthy? Ideally, peer reviewed.
Saludos!!! Ya te habias tardado con otro video!!
Destin from smarter everyday had a series regarding this I'll find the video links and post them as a comment on this one.
generally I'll try reading different sources for the news I get. I also try to share from the source.
Now I have a big problem and that is that here where I live (I'm that colombian guy from the discord server), the news channels are incredibly biased. The public channels are defunded and social networks are full of only the bad stuff happening to the people, honestly I can't believe it. It's just bad and sharing the "good stuff" will not hide away the obvious broken counrty I live in
Great job, Rey!
As for how I verify news:
1. Over here in Europe it's a "little" easier as independent news and very established news are the norm as far as I experience it.
Some of them are also available in English (I'm in Germany).
2. I do get newsletters from unis about economics, politics, and the like that I can double check regular news with.
3. Another think I do is subscribe to www.nap.edu/ to know more about the framework of things to then filter from there.
I think the worst thing about this problem is the convenience factor of just "going with the headline". Research takes time and sadly by the time you could verify something that headline influences things around it no matter if it's true or not by the time you know what it is.
Please keep making more of these!
Oh and my tiktok is @brewmage :)
can we get a part 2 for this.
Yo, that beat in the video's background is hella gas⛽! Who made it and where can I find it?
From 03:15-06:00
8:16 they must feel extreme onism as their view of the world is so distorted, they think mass surveillance and content blocking is normal and they would never know that it isn’t unless they expected. I don’t know if I feel awful for them or just nothing
Look up the article/ blog/ news story author to verify they are who they claim to be.
Follow the link backs until the original article is discovered.
If the piece of information is shrouded in more ads than free gaming apps... maybe just not trust that one.
Try news outlets that are publically funded. Diversify your friend groups- get off your own island.
I put filters like |.edu| to get information primarily from journals and documents (works best for fact-checking science-ey thingies). For News outlets, if something doesn't feel right or logical, I use multiple sources from different pages. (Almost never use Social Media for News unless it is a first-hand account)
cross reference cross reference cross reference, you can never learn to many sides to what ever info your trying to learn
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO! It's quite validating because I can be certain that my paranoia of not being informed IS A GOOD PARANOIA. Needing to do the research for myself and finding connection is important. Justjfklsdjkaf well said. :)
I always vote underdog (libertarian, w/e). Secondly, with few exceptions that stuff I place in my internal BS bucket... stays there. Observe, read (no trash), & study a science. From this baseline, anyone should be able to predict (or at least, not be surprised) by the decisions of people or the events that precipitate.
Always use Incognito mode...? Then how do I auto-complete in the search bar and restore my tabs if they close :p
Oh boy you gotta check out Aydon Paladin's videos. Love your topics.
Not gonna lie, I was distracted
Oh god the face of Mr. Zuckerberg hahahaa he was like "oof that hurt a tiny bit too much" when will people learn to do right things?? Media/technology is growing immense and yet the people don't feel like they need to be informed. They sleep and have to deal with consequences. Sadly way too many people from the good side died/suffered.. I hope for a better future. We got this.
Also great video!
the dark lipstick really brings out the spongebob cosplay. Love the teeth girl!!
I just need a heat from my favorite white hat. Please stay safe.
Snoopes help but it's not really international so I just look some of the keywords of the news and cross reference things. Also google scholar is pretty good if you want to look for the studies some news report on
Absolutely loved the video and urs insight and post more videos on these issues and other techy stuff. As far as the last questions u asked,
I read many news articles from a bunch of international and local sources abd then decide on what to believe takes time but ur at least getting the full picture with many views and insights of other people that help in understanding a topics. And for sharing stuff I barely share stuff even tho I would loved to share more with my friends and family they quiet frankly don't care about the news or continue to support the same thing they did for the past many years so that a waste of time and for public forums or social media I keep interactinons to a minimum when it comes to politics or other related stuff and only share facts with proof that are true instead of the whole article's which I know they won't read completely. For protection I dont do as much as I hoped too because I am quite lazy and like to blame it on my mental health which has been quite bad in covid so that's that. I love ur vids and Tiktok as I love these topics personally and admire any person that gives any good and honest insights related to the topics.
Tiktok I'd is ahm_suf
Hello. Thank you for sharing.
My approach to researching stories I am deeply interested in is:
- read full article with an open mind
- find keywords in the article I read, and design a couple searches on Google (shamefully covering eyes) or PubMed (for medical/scientific stories) to verify validity of the original claims
- clean up keywords and go on Twitter to find people opinions using my keywords. If I get annoyed or interested in an opinion: (1) view other positions from this person, (2) view general opinion that people I follow may have of the new source I found or of the story, (3) only follow people who’s opinions you have come to respect (this requires unfriending people if necessary)
Cheers!
By the way, I did not know you had out-takes. It was a nice surprise! Keep it up, and the trips on your bike!! Living vicariously!
Me Personaly, not watching any TV.
Btw. Dont have one
Not gonna lie I always just look up the information or try to find the article somewhere else and see what else is being said about it. I don’t trust anything I see on Facebook. I didn’t really think I was doing something big just don’t wanna spread misinformation. It’s true though I see too many post or shares and I look it up and they’re false. Oh but I look it up on google which I guess I shouldn’t do that... so some other tips would be great!
I check sources or use snopes for things. I'm Canadian, so while our new organizations have bias & some like to cherry-pick, none of the major ones lie, (outside opinion pieces) so I will look for articles on the same thing from other organizations. I make a point of including one of the conservative newspapers in my news intake for this reason, despite the fact that they are ideologically bankrupt. (They still don't make stuff up outside their opinion pieces, so it is not like Fox.) (Also it pays to know what the other side is focusing on.) Also, me and my friends like to talk about current events & fact check each other & stuff. (We are all pretty interested in unvarnished truth, so it works.)
You gotta snopes the snopes. Snopes is sus asf
Hounstly I already know all this. Which is why I do research on things. I can never explains well because I cant communicate properly like other people it's a neurological proublem I need to see a neurologist to be sure what's going on. Anyway I feel you just said everything I was thinking and how I feel on this matter. Thank you being my voice without even knowing. My method is when I read something that catch my eyes and start reading about it. I try to find more article from different sources to see if it's True or not. Like I watch a video about portals on earth and find out that in space there are portals on space that open and close all the time for a short period of time. I thought it was really cool and I look up more information from NASA website and yes there are portals opening and closing all the time. But they are not the portals you think they are. In today time portals generally mean like the portal to the nether in minecraft and back to the overworld in minecraft. But what they are referring to is that of a door way. Yes there was I time door way ment a portal. Once I found that out I was a bit upset but i did learn something from it .
im guilty of not consuming much news media but when i do its just NPR or www.twitch.tv/hasanabi
Query : could you make a video like this that we could share, that doesn't have individual opinions in it? I personally absolutely agree with you, but unfortunately, many people who I would want to follow this type of thinking, and how to research what's fake and biased, the moment they saw you for example speaking I'll of trumpf, it would immediately flip their opinion and viewpoint of the entire video, and they would just see it as the liberal media trying to discredit their (flawed) viewpoint
I think letting them find the truth for themselves, instead of pointing it out to them might have a better chance of accomplishing the impossible task of them actually seeing the truth.
2! Hundredth! like! Booyah! Also, thanks for this!
Hm.. I prove it with countering it i guess? If I see something i look for links proofs etc then google it on my acc see what i get there and then do it again with a clean acc or duckduckgo and Look if the results change And from there i just check sources that are given idk if its the best way but its mine
It took way too long to find this kind of content.And I had to go through wormholes of shadowbanned content.
I understand your disdain you have for some certain person; I always hear, they are so vile a person, but never a reason that holds water. For all the reasons, all the facts spewed forth there is always a biased source or untrue instance. Jan 6th a speech set forth a deadly insurrection, but now it's becoming more know that it was planned and started well before a speech and mostly by members of groups that have been practicing all summer long. There are people giving accounts of the horror that were not even there at the time. Yet as blatant as I see wrongs done others see the saintly acts of the accusers as the truly assaulted. I stop and wonder if I’m wrong. I look at what is before me, you don’t get the money unless he’s fire, son in the pocket still to this day to china. Then I have to ask isn’t that much worse and do you ever think about if you’re wrong.. no wars and middle east peace is kinda a good thing …no?