Comments on: The Lost Art of Verification – W4 https://digitalwriting.site/2026/02/14/the-lost-art-of-verification-w4/ Experiments in Digital Content Fri, 01 May 2026 16:46:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: LKSOC1004 https://digitalwriting.site/2026/02/14/the-lost-art-of-verification-w4/#comment-790 Fri, 01 May 2026 16:46:53 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=1980#comment-790 This post is really good! I love the addition of color accents and pictures. I think that the layout is really interesting too. For me, a linear, vertical layout easily loses me past a certain point. If something is long enough, my ADD kicks in and I start to get lost. The formatting decisions really help hold engagement because there isn’t really a point where everything blends in.

I also think the length you’ve went for here works super well. You’re trying to show how quick using some of the strategies from Verified are, so the piece being short and sweet works well.

I think the content here is particularly interesting, too. The idea of doing small things like this as a means of training yourself to be less susceptible to misinformation is an interesting idea. I, too, have wondered what the effect of passively seeing misinformation is and how much it actually affects you, even when you pass it by and don’t really engage with it. The “training” really touches on habit the same way that Aristotle does in Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle basically says what you have said here. When you build unhelpful habits, you do unhelpful things. So, if you take a period to act purposively and build a helpful or good habit, your automatic tendency will be to do helpful or good things.

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By: goosefeet22 https://digitalwriting.site/2026/02/14/the-lost-art-of-verification-w4/#comment-667 Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:49:11 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=1980#comment-667 This is such a great post! I really love your formatting and how you work through the SIFT process directly. As sad as I am that Caleb is not (yet) officially Miles Morales, this is a really great example. A claim like that can be so easily believable!! I appreciate that you mention that there isn’t really a full proof way to prevent misinformation from becoming a part of our knowledge base, but there are steps to make it less likely. I always feel conflicted when it comes to certain AI content because I know that I don’t want to interact with it but there is probably benefit to seeing how it is evolving and what it is capable to creating and doing. People like to joke about how instead of actually looking anything up pre-google, they would just ask the closest older relative and they would give you a maybe-correct answer and they have to live with that information for the rest of their life. It kind of feels like we are dealing with that but everyone on the internet is that relative and it’s not even for questions we ask, often it is just what is put in front of us algorithmically. Great post!

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By: abbeys0121 https://digitalwriting.site/2026/02/14/the-lost-art-of-verification-w4/#comment-661 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:16:51 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=1980#comment-661 Hey! First of all, I absolutely love the way you formatted your blog post and the images you incorporated. This was a very interesting and engaging read. Like you say in the beginning, I too scroll through X, Instagram, and other social medias, also taking in information “without question” as you put it. I really liked how you compared this to breaking a barrier in our mind. It’s something that I feel I should be more mindful about. I really like the example and guide you created showing how simple misinformation can be, such as the false spiderman casting. Mindlessly scrolling can lead you to believe things that aren’t even close to being true, so I liked how you explained to research and find the misinformation.

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