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How to spot misinformation
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Three kinds of false
False information is not all one thing. It splits three ways. What splits them is intent. Not the words. The reason behind them.
Sometimes a person shares something false and means no harm.
A friend posts an old flood photo. She thinks it is from today. She got it wrong. She did not mean to fool anyone.
misinformation
False information shared by mistake. The person did not mean to fool anyone.
Sources
- Caulfield, the SIFT method (Stop, Investigate, Find, Trace)
- Wineburg & McGrew (2017), Stanford History Education Group — lateral reading
- Wardle & Derakhshan (2017), First Draft — information disorder (mis/dis/mal)
- Hasher, Goldstein & Toppino (1977); Fazio et al. (2015) — illusory truth effect
- Out-of-context photos / false context (First Draft)