By: e.g.lane

e.g.lane — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:14:08 +0000

As someone who was told using Wikipedia was a horrid sin, it’s been a game changer for fact checking my research. I’ve used it in the past to brush up on my knowledge, but using it in the way Verified suggests has been helpful for quickly vetting a source. Videos are a hard medium to vet, especially if there is not a whole lot of coverage on the particular clip you are concerned with. I can’t tell you how many short political video clips I’ve seen on Instagram that I just know are taken out of context. It’s become so easy for media to be distorted. I didn’t know a whole lot about native ads, either. It was very disheartening to see to what lengths people will go to hide them/cover up as not sponsored.

By: lary_rin

lary_rin — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:05:41 +0000

You provided a really great overview of everything that was discussed in the chapters we read. I forgot that academic peer review was one of the biggest topics in the chapters, so I am glad you refreshed my memory on it. Also, I like that you pulled the line “measure twice, cut once” from the reading. I really like the way the book helps us in thinking about the things we do with internet information in a way that feels so simple. I feel like I rarely really double check information like that. I tend to just send things and be like: I don’t know if it’s true or might want to look into this. That tends to be my mentality with internet information that I want to share. Whereas with information that others share to me, I’m searching it up more than likely before I believe it.

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