• How NOT To Spot Fake News
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[video=youtube;OCsp31lSQ2A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCsp31lSQ2A[/video] This video basically points out that there's a difference between fake news media, i.e. news stories that are completely fabricated from whole cloth, and biased news, i.e. news stories that involve cherry-picked information and emotive language designed to create a false or one-sided impression, and that it's important to get your knowledge from multiple sources of information.
[QUOTE=Jackald;51866787]I keep myself fully informed by using only the most unbiased source such as:[/QUOTE] [url]https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/center/[/url] This is a good place to start. Each of these media companies have been rated based on their factual accurancy and propensity to cherry-pick information or employ emotive language to create a false or one-sided impression and have been rated as the most credible news sources available today. Here's a link to the methodology they use to determine the bias of a media company: [url]https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/methodology/[/url]
[QUOTE=Jackald;51866856]To be honest, my first port of call whenever I see pretty much any news story these days is to cross-check it with Snopes. I mean even if the news isn't untruthful, a lot of sites cherry pick like crazy.[/QUOTE] Snopes, Politifact, FactCheck and Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC) are all good places to verify information, especially since I believe they all use the standardized International Fact-Checking Network Fact-checkers’ Code of Principles, so any fact checking should be consistent across all of those websites. Also I think Media Watch is pretty good, even though it's mostly fact checking Australian News there's often some international stuff as well (you can download episodes for free): [url]http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/[/url]
I get my news from the only reliable source, Drudge Report and InfoWARS™
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