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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?".