Media Literacy and Fake News (1 Viewer)

[Ayo]

The Canadian Journalism Federation is taking fake news very seriously. I've worked with media literacy for years, and this is - to date - the most expansively public approach that I've seen, in advance of the Federal Election.

Journalism group launches anti-fake news campaign ahead of Canadian election

Recent polling suggests nearly all Canadians have come across misinformation online, yet only 40 per cent feel they know how to differentiate between fake news and the real thing.

www.thestar.com

If you are engaged online, you have likely been subjected to something that was not true, and yet there isn't much pursuit in trying to determine factual accuracy of the articles and information. And most of us - probably every single one of us here - have fallen for it.

Recent polling by Ipsos, Earnscliffe Strategy Group and MIT researchers suggests nearly all Canadians have come across misinformation online, yet only 40 per cent feel they know how to differentiate between fake news and the real thing.

The polls also found 90 per cent of Canadians admitted to falling for fake news in the past, and only a third of them regularly check to see if the stories they’re consuming are legitimate.

I don't think that their approach is going to be enough. I think the most effective utility it will have is bringing awareness. But fuller approaches to media literacy are going to be necessary to combat the deluge of increasingly deceptive media. These are hard skills that can be learned, but with the advent of new 'deep fake' technology, media literacy is going to have adapt, too.

I would like to see greater emphasis on media literacy in the US. Because even though this statement is for the Canadian audience, it definitely - maybe even more so - applies to the US where news is more infotainment and sensationalized than it is up here:

“To be an engaged citizen, you have to have access to quality journalism… you have to understand what is quality journalism and what is not,” said Richard Gingras, vice-president of Google News.

Another source includes one approach - the SPOT approach: https://www.manitoulin.ca/news-media-canada-launches-new-tool-to-help-people-spot-fake-news/

SPOT is an acronym that acts as a simple way to remember the four principles of identifying misinformation. It works like this:
S: Is this a credible source? Check the source of the article—and be skeptical.
P: Is the perspective biased? Think critically and look for varying viewpoints on an issue.
O: Are other sources reporting the same story? Be your own fact-checker and verify the validity of the story.
T: Is the story timely? Check the date the story was published—sometimes, stories use old information to take advantage of a timely occurrence.

It's obviously not enough, but a decent start.

 

[JRad]

Fox is always going to lead in ratings, it's silly to think otherwise.

Fox has zero competition for their target audience.
Fox also appeals to an audience that's more likely to watch news. Younger people largely aren't watching the news on TV.

 

[zztop]

What concerns me is the long term effects of this administration. When the White House is gaslighting their own people, it is going to erode the trust that people have... and even when voted out, that mistrust will probably last for a very long time

 

[superchuck500]

I really don't know where else to put this.

 

[insidejob]

I really don't know where else to put this.

I'm not comparing them but I'm just going to go ahead and compare them.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[MT15]

This is great news, Carlson has been increasingly vitriolic in his shows lately. Here he is getting all worked up that “they” will be coming for “you”.

Losing Papa John’s had to hurt, though

 

[superchuck500]

This is great news, Carlson has been increasingly vitriolic in his shows lately. Here he is getting all worked up that “they” will be coming for “you”.

Losing Papa John’s had to hurt, though

Doesn’t seem to phase him

 

[SaintForLife]

Tucker modeling the blatant hypocrisy that is his chief attribute. Open carry for me but not for thee.



Let black lives matter protestors start carrying ARs around and see how people change their tune.

It's not like there are gang bangers walking around Chicago neighborhoods with AK47s right?

Mayor Lori Lightfoot And Ald. Raymond Lopez Have Foul-Mouthed Argument Over Looting; 'You're 100% Full Of S***' Mayor Says

Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) accused the mayor of being unprepared when looting spread from downtown to the neighborhoods more than a week ago.

chicago.cbslocal.com

 

[SaintForLife]

This is great news, Carlson has been increasingly vitriolic in his shows lately. Here he is getting all worked up that “they” will be coming for “you”.

Losing Papa John’s had to hurt, though

I've seen many left wing people on twitter posting that video that was purposely cut off to make it seem like he was talking about black people. It's not that hard to find the entire video to show he was talking about Democratic politicians who he claimed haven't done much to help the black communities. You can disagree with what he's saying, but why the act like he said something that he didn't actually said? Watch the video around 22:50

 

[SaintForLife]

Doesn’t seem to phase him

Why the need to keep cutting off his videos to give a different impression than what he said? The video you posted makes it seem like he was saying black people don't own this country and they didn't build it right? He said vandals don't own this country and they didn't build it. I'm curious to hear your defense of the vandals that are rioting and burning down buildings. Once again, disagreeing with what he said is perfectly reasonable. Posting edited clips to make it seem like he was talking about black people is a whole different story.

 

[superchuck500]

Why the need to keep cutting off his videos to give a different impression than what he said? The video you posted makes it seem like he was saying black people don't own this country and they didn't build it right? He said vandals don't own this country and they didn't build it. I'm curious to hear your defense of the vandals that are rioting and burning down buildings. Once again, disagreeing with what he said is perfectly reasonable. Posting edited clips to make it seem like he was talking about black people is a whole different story.

I don’t see where it’s suggested that he was only referring to black people - I thought it was clear that he was referring those engaging in destruction (some of which is pure 'vandalism' such as store looting, some of which is political in nature including the attacking of monuments). If people insinuated that he was simply referring to black people, that's clearly not accurate.

But his clear use of "they/them" and "us/we" is very deliberate. "They don't own this country, they didn't build it. So why are we letting them destroy it?" certainly suggests that "we" do own this country, we did build it. Even the longer clip has to be seen in context of Carlson's ongoing theme and presentation. Taking the longer clip but not seeing in that context is not much different than taking a short clip out of the context of the full segment. When you're defending the status quo, It's easy to insist on calm, on civility while simultaneously resisting the same objectives when they're pursued in civil fashion.

To be clear, I'm not defending pure vandalism in any way - and while I also reject the use of the destruction of property (such as a monument) as a means to a political end, I also recognize that sometimes those acts reflect the fact that civil means have failed to bring the matter to consideration by proper channels. I'll grant you that he was not referring exclusively to black people.

 

[superchuck500]

This is, indeed, part of the problem with all of the social upheaval we're seeing. Notions of fairness and empathy - which should be ideals of the left - are often cast aside in the same of some sense of 'progress':

But police violence, and Trump’s daily assaults on the presidential competence standard, are only part of the disaster. On the other side of the political aisle, among self-described liberals, we’re watching an intellectual revolution. It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind. It’s become a cowardly mob of upper-class social media addicts, Twitter Robespierres who move from discipline to discipline torching reputations and jobs with breathtaking casualness.

The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation. They are counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily.

More at https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-itself

 

[superchuck500]

 

[MT15]

Here’s a link to the Seattle Times story that details the deceptive tactics.

Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle's protests, Capitol Hill Organized Protest

The image Fox used was a digitally altered mashup of photos from different days, taken by different photographers in Seattle.

www.seattletimes.com

SFL, I never mentioned race in my comment about Carlson, did I? There was nothing incorrect about what was said.

 

[MT15]

This could go in two threads. Support your local news, folks. They are trying to cut through the propaganda put out there by Tucker and his ilk, and bring some reality to the situation.

This is a story, ultimately, about how a hippie bus named Buttercup came to be tweeted about by a sitting US Senator as an example of “Antifa” insurrection. No, really.

'We were terrified and confused': The curious case of the colorful school bus

A group of hippie circus performers on a converted bus named Buttercup were briefly detained by a SWAT team at a...

www.columbusalive.com

 

[Farb]

Here is a headline from my local 'news':

https://www.wkrg.com/national/protesters-turn-spot-near-police-precinct-into-festive-scene/
Trump fumes as protesters stake out festive zone in Seattle

This is related to the State of Chaz, or maybe just a street a festival. I am not sure anymore.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

Here is a headline from my local 'news':

https://www.http://www.baldwinpiano.com/BP148.htmlwkrg.com/national/protesters-
Trump fumes as protesters stake out festive zone in Seattle

This is related to the State of Chaz, or maybe just a street a festival. I am not sure anymore.

What local source is this? That URL points to a piano company founded in Ohio and the headline points to an ABC News story.

 

[Farb]

What local source is this? That URL points to a piano company founded in Ohio and the headline points to an ABC News story.

Sorry, that was a work link. I have edited.