• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Good point … so many social activities and actions now are so manipulated that you never know what anyone is doing.

    Whatever information I read now … I have to constantly stop to ask myself… who wrote this? … why? … who does the writer represent? Who are they? What do they do? Where do they come from? What are their names and do they have a bio?

    If I can’t quickly verify who you are and what you wrote then I’m not believing anything that is said … the same goes for the subject that is being written about … who was the subject you wrote about? Did you find out who they were? Or what organization they represent?

    I find I have to the majority of the work on my own in order to verify most of the junk I read online.

    Officially recognised news media outlets are decent but even they have to be scrutinized in everything they say and write.

    It’s the age of information … it’s just that no one said it was disinformation, misinformation or just plain non-information.

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      Whatever information I read now … I have to constantly stop to ask myself… who wrote this? … why? … who does the writer represent? Who are they? What do they do? Where do they come from? What are their names and do they have a bio?

      This is actually the hard part of actual “research”: evaluating the source’s qualities.

      Every time someone says to me “have you heard about xxxxxxxxx yyyyyyyyyyy” I ask, “according to whom?”.