How to avoid misinformation about the war [View all]
Social media is flooded with out-of-context videos and images users claim are coming from Israel or Gaza. Finding
the original source is key.
But, like any conflict we’ve watched from our phone screens in the last decade, misinformation is rampant — including
videos claiming to show Israeli children being held in cages and a fake BBC reporter fanning the flames of war.
Fortunately, as with any breaking news event, like the ongoing war in Ukraine, some journalistic thinking and media
literacy techniques can help you avoid sharing misinformation.
As director of the Poynter Institute’s digital media literacy initiative MediaWise, I recommend first asking three
questions developed by the Stanford History Education Group in its study of how fact-checkers navigate the internet:
Who’s behind the information?
What’s the evidence?
What do other sources say?
To answer the first question, leave the page you’re on, open a few tabs, and use keywords to find out more about
a user or news outlet from a post. This is called lateral reading.
More at link....
https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/oct/12/social-media-is-flooded-with-out-of-context-videos/
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