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Coronavirus: Here's how you can stop bad information from going viral https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-51967889
Coronavirus: Here's how you can stop bad information from going viral https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-51967889
Remember the media is controlled by powerfull people with political agendas. Lobbyists can also be a source of spreading fake news.
Actually #7 was the reason I posted the article.@Panina Good article with some good reminders. Particularly the last point below. [bolding is mine] It is easy to let your guard down when one is frustrated and angry like now. Perhaps this is why Facebook has gone so wrong.
7. Think about biases
Are you sharing something because you know it's true - or just because you agree with it?
Carl Miller, research director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at think tank Demos, says we're more likely to share posts that reinforce our existing beliefs.
"It's when we're angrily nodding our head that we're most vulnerable," he says. "That's when, above everything else, we just need to slow down everything that we do online."
This is why I missed the old CBS, NBC and ABC news broadcasts anchors; Walter Cronkite, Chet Hundley and David Brinkley, and Reynolds they never gave their personal views points on the daily news.
Their job was to report the news and not to give their personal views of the news.
That's the rumor at least. Cronkite had a huge political bias. Remember, it's not just what they report, it's what they don't report that shows bias as well.