Good point … so many social activities and actions now are so manipulated that you never know what anyone is doing.
Whatever information I read now … I have to constantly stop to ask myself… who wrote this? … why? … who does the writer represent? Who are they? What do they do? Where do they come from? What are their names and do they have a bio?
If I can’t quickly verify who you are and what you wrote then I’m not believing anything that is said … the same goes for the subject that is being written about … who was the subject you wrote about? Did you find out who they were? Or what organization they represent?
I find I have to the majority of the work on my own in order to verify most of the junk I read online.
Officially recognised news media outlets are decent but even they have to be scrutinized in everything they say and write.
It’s the age of information … it’s just that no one said it was disinformation, misinformation or just plain non-information.
Whatever information I read now … I have to constantly stop to ask myself… who wrote this? … why? … who does the writer represent? Who are they? What do they do? Where do they come from? What are their names and do they have a bio?
This is actually the hard part of actual “research”: evaluating the source’s qualities.
Every time someone says to me “have you heard about xxxxxxxxx yyyyyyyyyyy” I ask, “according to whom?”.
Good point … so many social activities and actions now are so manipulated that you never know what anyone is doing.
Whatever information I read now … I have to constantly stop to ask myself… who wrote this? … why? … who does the writer represent? Who are they? What do they do? Where do they come from? What are their names and do they have a bio?
If I can’t quickly verify who you are and what you wrote then I’m not believing anything that is said … the same goes for the subject that is being written about … who was the subject you wrote about? Did you find out who they were? Or what organization they represent?
I find I have to the majority of the work on my own in order to verify most of the junk I read online.
Officially recognised news media outlets are decent but even they have to be scrutinized in everything they say and write.
It’s the age of information … it’s just that no one said it was disinformation, misinformation or just plain non-information.
This is actually the hard part of actual “research”: evaluating the source’s qualities.
Every time someone says to me “have you heard about xxxxxxxxx yyyyyyyyyyy” I ask, “according to whom?”.