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"What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?"
- Tennessee Williams play, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Facebook and other forms of social media have become virtual tabloids of re-shared half-truths, rumors and outright falsehoods, especially in this political season.
Examples:
Obama Signs Executive Order Banning The Pledge Of Allegiance In Schools Nationwide
This site uses what looks like the abc news logo, also the abcnews URL, except for an added ".co" (and the "White House Hotline" number listed is for the Westboro Baptist Church of Orlando!) See https://www.truthorfiction.com/obama-executive-order-bans-pledge-allegiance/
Barack Obama Just Admitted He's a Muslim
Multiple sources refute this widely spread rumor, including
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/aug/26/18-percent-american-public/obama-muslim-no-hes-not-evidence-has-not-changed/
Multiple sources refute this widely spread rumor, including
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/aug/26/18-percent-american-public/obama-muslim-no-hes-not-evidence-has-not-changed/
Clinton Medical Records Leaked- "Dementia, Seizures, Black-outs"
See http://www.vox.com/2016/8/18/12505078/hillary-clinton-health-stroke-conspiracy-fake
City in Michigan First To Fully Implement Sharia Law
See Fact Check http://www.factcheck.org/2015/12/dearborns-anti-isis-rally/
See http://www.vox.com/2016/8/18/12505078/hillary-clinton-health-stroke-conspiracy-fake
City in Michigan First To Fully Implement Sharia Law
See Fact Check http://www.factcheck.org/2015/12/dearborns-anti-isis-rally/
Chick-o-fil President Dan Cathy: "We-Don't Like the Blacks Either"
See Snopes piece http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/chickfila.asp
See Snopes piece http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/chickfila.asp
Trump Will Look Into Ways to Get Rid of All Muslims in the US
Countered by http://wonkette.com/596204/correction-donald-trump-did-not-threaten-to-deport-all-muslims-to-the-moon
Countered by http://wonkette.com/596204/correction-donald-trump-did-not-threaten-to-deport-all-muslims-to-the-moon
Obama Bribed NY Attorney General To Sue Trump University
See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-eric-schneiderman-trump-university_us_57b2340ae4b0a8e15024e470
See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-eric-schneiderman-trump-university_us_57b2340ae4b0a8e15024e470
DNC Hires Actors to Fill Seats Vacated by Bernie Supporters
See https://www.truthorfiction.com/dnc-hired-actors-fill-seats-convention/
How Can We Counter This Kind of Misinformation?
1. Always be skeptical of social media posts. And thoroughly fact check before you share any of them.
2. Always mistrust sites that consistently represent only one side or one particular point of view, like Brietbart, the Drudge Report, the Daily Cos, and multiple other supposed "news sources". Any site names that contain the words liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat, red, blue, etc., are sure to represent some form of propaganda espousing a political party or cause.
3. Read and follow more than one news source, recognizing that no news outlet, including those representing the so-called "Lame Stream Media", is totally free of bias. Yet conventional outlets run by professional journalists who check and double check their sources--and cite multiple and diverse sources--are far, far more trustworthy than are most internet sites.
"Finally, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
See https://www.truthorfiction.com/dnc-hired-actors-fill-seats-convention/
How Can We Counter This Kind of Misinformation?
1. Always be skeptical of social media posts. And thoroughly fact check before you share any of them.
2. Always mistrust sites that consistently represent only one side or one particular point of view, like Brietbart, the Drudge Report, the Daily Cos, and multiple other supposed "news sources". Any site names that contain the words liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat, red, blue, etc., are sure to represent some form of propaganda espousing a political party or cause.
3. Read and follow more than one news source, recognizing that no news outlet, including those representing the so-called "Lame Stream Media", is totally free of bias. Yet conventional outlets run by professional journalists who check and double check their sources--and cite multiple and diverse sources--are far, far more trustworthy than are most internet sites.
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"Finally, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
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