Here's how to outsmart fake news in your Facebook feed

[ABX]

This is actually a very good article and ore balanced than some want to admit.

Just  because it's on the internet doesn't make it true. It seems so simple, but if everyone knew that, Facebook and Google wouldn't have to pull bogus news sites from their advertising algorithms and people wouldn't breathlessly share stories that claim Donald Trump is a secret lizard person or Hillary Clinton is an android in a pantsuit.

It doesn't have to be this way. Fake news is actually really easy to spot -- if you know how. Consider this your New Media Literacy Guide.....

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/tech/how-to-spot-fake-misleading-news-trnd/index.html?sr=twCNN111816how-to-spot-fake-misleading-news-trnd0353PMStoryLink&linkId=31314960

[truth_seeker]

CNN as a source ??

Perception is reality.

Fight fire with fire.

Avoid "fake news" by avoiding purveyors of fake news; namely ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, and many others etc.

[ABX]

CNN as a source ??

Perception is reality.

Fight fire with fire.

Avoid "fake news" by avoiding purveyors of fake news; namely ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, and many others etc.

What would you recommend as a starting point as legitmate news (knowing nothing is truly unbaised of course)?

[truth_seeker]

What would you recommend as a starting point as legitmate news (knowing nothing is truly unbaised of course)?

Generally in life, it is wise to utilize sources which have been proved to be accurate, recently.

I would listen to Gingrich and Giuliani, and not Beck and Levin for one example.

We live in an overwhelming sea of information, with a severe shortage of wisdom.

Accuracy, results, not volume levels.

[jmyrlefuller]

A few tips:

- Understand everyone has a perspective and a bias, even among legitimate news sources.
- Beware clickbait. Exclamation points, capital letters, teaser headlines that don't give an accurate summary of the content of the story and the such are huge red flags.
- If it sounds too good to be true, and NOBODY else is reporting it, then yes, it's probably too good to be true.
- Look and see if they have a track record. First with their own in-house archives, but also check archive.org, which crawls most Web sites every few weeks.
- Remember that no one fact-checks the fact-checkers. Like news outlets, they too have their biases, so when Politifact says Donald Trump is the biggest liar in the field and Bernie Sanders has never told a flat-out lie, ever (and yes, they did claim this), you have reason to be skeptical.

There is a difference between biased news and outright made-up fake news.

[ShadowAce]

Here's the single most 100% way to avoid it--








Don't use Facebook.  Cancel your account.  Never open it again.

[ABX]

A few tips:

- Understand everyone has a perspective and a bias, even among legitimate news sources.
- Beware clickbait. Exclamation points, capital letters, teaser headlines that don't give an accurate summary of the content of the story and the such are huge red flags.
- If it sounds too good to be true, and NOBODY else is reporting it, then yes, it's probably too good to be true.
- Look and see if they have a track record. First with their own in-house archives, but also check archive.org, which crawls most Web sites every few weeks.
- Remember that no one fact-checks the fact-checkers. Like news outlets, they too have their biases, so when Politifact says Donald Trump is the biggest liar in the field and Bernie Sanders has never told a flat-out lie, ever (and yes, they did claim this), you have reason to be skeptical.

There is a difference between biased news and outright made-up fake news.