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Misinformation is widely spread in these era as the previous generation tend to believe anything they see on the internet.

"Look at this plant, it can heal anykinds of disease", yet there's no supporting data to defend the claims.

"Look, they became magnetic after getting vaccinated", yet the one who is supposed to be magnetic is just sweaty

"Look at this, the government is in cooperation with the other governments for worldwide genocide", yet years later, nothing ever happened

And the most annoying is that, typically your aunt/s or uncle/s are the one spreading this to your family group conversation. Like they are saying "Look at this, I am concerned about you guys so I will spread nonsense that may help you"

At least, at first glance, a interesting point of view...

usually people who act like that are people who like to talk about something that is less useful.  so that when there is something new it will be immediately used as a material for discussion without going deep into what it is being brought to people.  In my country, many are like that, from talking about conspiracies about covid, about vaccines and even about flat earth.  What I'm worried about is that if it creates chaos, then the situation will be difficult to control.  remember people are easily stirred up by what they only want

1.2012 is the end of the world

2.5G networks will spread COVID-19

Yes, these posts can often be identified because they are just copy/pastes from a website or email... the person who posts them doesn't link to any data, and when their assertions are challenged with actual data, they refuse to engage or to attempt to justify their position... they either continue posting the same nonsense, or else start a new thread, and repeat with a new topic. There are more examples of this in the P&S section than anyone could possibly count.

Spreading fake information in the internet has always been a problem for many specially for those who easily believes on what they see here. It is very easy to manipulate or change information in the internet like for example, in Wikipedia, everyone is free to change its content and many students sometime rely on the definition given by it. If you want to be certain about a specific data in the internet, you should rely on journal articles with trustworthy authors or see if there supporting evidence cited to prove that the information being given is completely legitimate.

The internet is full of fake news , misinformation and deceit. I keep finding stupid claims about every subject you can imagine. A quick googling or image search can easily debunk most of these theories,  fortunately, there are quite a few fact checkers out there, which are doing a great job.

Personally, I use Greek Hoaxes, a national fact checker which is great at tracking down fake news and misinformation.

Then there will be these people who will be like "Yes, I agree", "Yes, I believe the same thing", "I knew it" without fact checking the information they read which indeed tolerates that behavior you mentioned.


not until they hit you with their full potential.


Yet there will be like this guys who were like "Those data's are made to make a full out of you" and will fully defend the claim that has one reference to defend from someone else vlog who believes the same thing as them  :-[

this reminds me of an online drama between a Doctor debunking "miracle" plants and another Doctor that sells herbal medicine and also, claims that she graduated from Harvard(she took a Harvard online class about optimal nutrition for $49). the issue got more serious when one of the doctors sued the other for defamation(or something like that). if you are curious about the drama. just search "doc adam and doc Farrah issue".

One of these so-called doctors was arrested a few months ago, here in Greece. He would suggest his herbal and miracle stuff, for an extraordinary amount of money, to supposedly cure cancer and other diseases. He even persuaded his victims to stop other therapies, such as chemotherapy, which accounted for several deaths, which are purely his fault.

It's astonishing that people end up believing fake doctors and therapies in their despair.

People who are often in desperate position always look for the "MIRACLE" that can ease/cure their disease. Miracle is a word that will make a people who believes strongly in religion think about what they are talking about.

The solution to 'online mis-information' is rather straightforward really.  Just foster a culture of questioning and encourage the use of tools which facilitate it (e.g., logical reasoning, factual data, etc.)  This will NEVER happen though because governance relies on 'controlling the narrative' by basically lying to people when it is most efficient to do so. and that does not work efficiently if the peeps have any questions.

The best 'middle ground' is to outlaw questioning of things which support 'the narrative', and mandating the belief of things which are in support of it.  For instance, you are a thought criminal if you don't know for sure that 'exactly six million Jews'(tm) were smoked by the Nazis.  Or if you don't know for sure that vaccines are 'safe and effective'.

damn, that is extremely similar to what happened here in the Philippines. people who bought the herbal medicine don't want to go to the hospital because they believe that the miracle plant would be enough. and yeah, people have died believing that the herbal medicine being sold to them would cure them.

yep

As best I can tell, in the case of one doctor at least, many people used her wares in part because they simply didn't have the money for the medicines released by the multi-national pharmaceutical companies.  It was herbal remedies or nothing for these people.

Said doctor left in the middle of the night because, according to her, she was tipped off by the equiv of the FBI that the 'security detail' allotted to the FDA director was about to assassinate her and her husband.  Like that night!  Within a few weeks of her getting the hell out of Dodge her medicinal herb farm was plowed under.

  https://governmentph.com/open-letter-of-dr-farrah-agustin-bunch/ (https://governmentph.com/open-letter-of-dr-farrah-agustin-bunch/)

I know from personal experience that it is pointless to 'go to the hospital' because even if one is about to die, they will turn you away to die in the street.  I got a very sick girl in the door by showing a recent 'covid test', by swearing a blue streak and freaking out the staff, and paying about 300,000 peso for 10 days of care.  300,000 peso would be about 12 years at median per-capita income of $478 in the country.

gonna cross post this here  ;)

Found the article/source of what I mentioned. He's been charged with 3 deaths of cancer patients, two of whom were minors, only 14 and 16 years old respectively, and a 76-year-old man. I hadn't read about the ages before, it made me sick to my stomach. How can someone have absolutely zero consciousness?

Source: https://greekreporter.com/2020/06/23/fake-doctor-charged-for-causing-three-deaths-in-greece/

talking about online misinformation, i have first hand information of false data/misinformation about covid.

the helper, the neighbor, an acquaintance and my parents friends and helper. These hospitals are so very reluctant to label covid to their patients.

the data is skewed folks! the poor is being bribed for free cremation and expenses just to agree on paper that the cause of death is covid.

Reminds me of something I was reading about the 'vaccine trials' in India.  The participants only got paid at the end of the trial.  When a participant died, a family member would often fill in so they could get the money.  The reasoning was that the victim was dead anyway and it was better to get the money than nothing at all.

This happens to many countries and it happens since way back the start of pandemic.

What I've heard according to one of the people is that this kind of (what do we call it bribery? negotiation?) happens to access the funds allocated for covid victims. The key for this ideas is that ONLY covid patients will be granted to have something for this funds, so by twisting other patients death or disease, the family may receive the grants from the government.

Believe me or not, my relative once has a situation similar to this where her diagnosis is not in range for the insurance so they talk to the doctor about it and they twist the diagnosis for the sake of that insurance.

Another thing, its is not misinformation, rather faking

The internet plays the role it was meant to and it does it well actually but, you can't blame the misuse of this resource by some persons. The point most persons don't get is the fact that, those that are posting these informations on the net are you and I. Not everyone is some professional of some sort and as such, some users could just post what they want to attract clicks or views and get incentives for generating traffic. It's where the media people and bloggers explore the most.
It's a thing of importance, especially when it's got to do with health and security that you verify when it doesn't agree well with you than, jumping in to believe what ever you want because, you want it to be appealing yo you. It's another way to mess yourself up.

  I think it's better to observe rather than to listen the news directly. Online Misinformation leads us into wrong mind set and wrong information , accepting information directly are doesn't mean it's not good but I think it's depend if the information is relevant and reliable maybe that the time to believe the news to avoid mis interpret.

Dude, you're on point. It was exactly my aunt that told my brother who got vaccinated that vaccines got magnets and you'll gain magnetism. Well, nothing has happened and he's completely vaccinated. I find it funny though but I don't want to speak it to her up directly.
These conspiracies are everywhere, what's next is going to be the new sets of viruses that are being found elsewhere and being reported by the media, a different virus other than covid-19.

I agree with you,but believe me,even the experts and professionals pass or give wrong information,  misinterpretation of information by you and I is very common because we don't care to research before posting it online.Most atimes it is done to add spices to an already existed information and in the process go off the topic line.
Moreover,when information are dessiminated to the heterogenous public,there are people ,bloggers that are against the personnels in that information,therefore take advantage of the news and try to tanish their image by providing wrong information about such people,some of them are paid to do so.

The creativity of the people increased a lot that is the thing we can witness from such viral spread of wrong/framed news.

Even news channels reported wrong information and newspaper as well but at that time we didn't evaluate because we accept that as a source itself but now the same internet proves what is right and wrong so basically don't click the share button if you believe it just do it only if you can authenticate it.

I use fact checking websites like https://www.factcheck.org/. You type in what you have read like if plants can cure a disease and they only give you credible research and do not inject any bias into their answer. It is not perfect because it does always have all the answers but it is the best resource for checking if what you are reading is misinformation.

There have been quite a few instances of TV channels showing videos of older events, or from events that had no correlation with the reported subject. I'm following a national website called Greek Hoaxes. There were quite a few instances, were a specific channel was showing events from other countries, or from several years ago.

Link: https://www.ellinikahoaxes.gr/2021/01/06/epiphany-older-video-from-naxos-shown-as-current/

Don't rely on fact checking websites (and mainstream media). DYOR is still the best practice since the paper usually available on the internet. Don't use research paper as the bible with utmost truth, since many things can influence the research. Funding is one of it. You still have to trust the integrity of the researchers, and the validity and reliability of the instruments. And don't think that when you don't have the degree, you cannot ask questions.

There are two types of "misinformation" (1) Baseless claim obvious false information, and (2) Dissenting/opposing views. It's safe to put (1) into the trash can, but I encourage you to dig (2) for more useful insight.

On the one hand, I see where you're coming from, and I understand what exactly you mean. However, most fact-checkers I've used cite their sources at the bottom of the article, enabling you to check the legibility/validity of their claims. Doing your own research can be conducted along with using fact-checkers, to assist you in your investigation.

Fact checking websites link to the research and studies that have been done on the subject. If you cannot trust peer reviewed studies then any research you do will not be valid and you could only judge it on face value. Studies are peer reviewed to stop corruption and bias in the research. If we could not trust peer reviewed research a lot of our facts and science today would be obsolete. I think research which is peer reviewed is better than me and you looking at data that we do not understand and coming to our own conclusion because at least with the researchers they are qualified and know how to interpretate the data.

All 'peer reviewed' means is that they found a handful of corrupt academics to sign off on a fraudulent paper.  This is remarkably easy to do in a growing number of fields.  The so-called 'climate scientists' lead the pack here, but many other disciplines followed suite.

In tight politically driven fields such as 'climate science' the pay-off for checking off as a 'peer review' for your buddy is that he/she will do the same for your next paper.  It's nothing more than a circle-jerk of fraud and corruption.

But if we are this skeptical about peer reviewed studies then we cannot trust anything including scientific research that has shaped our world. I think peer reviewed studies are not allowed to be peer reviewed by colleagues and instead is done by experts in the same field as the researcher or study author.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4975196/

This article shows us the importance of peer reviewed studies and why they are more trustworthy than other studies. I have seen a lot of members here on this sub forum post claims without any studies and they claim it to be fact but all of a sudden we cannot listen to peer reviewed studies which have been scrutinized a lot more than some random member on a forum claiming a statement is true?   

The problem is that everybody can write something on the internet. There is no quality check, and especially with sides like Facebook there can be a lot of people involved in trying to boost misinformation to make it viral. And the second problem is that people on the internet are not critical enough, they something and instantly believe it. I see it every week with my family, they fall so easily for things on the internet. Especially ad campaigns make it so hard for older people to realise that this was paid for by a company with a motivation behind it. We need more critical thinking when it comes to the internet.

In the same article you shared:


Furthermore:


You tell me, are they (Springer & IEEE) highly reputable organizations? What I'm saying is "peers" are also human that prone to bias, dishonesty, and incompetence. You tell me if peer reviews were so good, how come they passed this nonsense paper? Imagine what happened in the "lower class" papers, Thus DYOR.

Misinformation has caused alot of chaos in the society today,and this work together with misinterpretation.
Most people find it difficult to pass information in a way that people can understand and decode it properly,therefore,it makes the decoder makes alot of mistakes due to the information passed.

An information is suppose to be encoded in a way that when the decoder reads it,he will be able to understand it properly,so that there will be no mistake in the interpretation and usage.

you fake stuff to misinform  ;D... keep talking, you are a fine specimen for the vaxxed  ;)

People are suffering because they are not able to perform their duties properly due to misinformation online of internet technology, in many cases the privacy of information is not maintained. Spreading untrue or false and fabricated news is easily creating social chaos underdeveloped countries are becoming more dependent on developed countries to share global networks due to technological changes. Cyber ​​attacks are on the rise of internet, online pornography is increasing and social degradation is taking place among the youth.

Couldn't agree more, social media, like Facebook, is filled with misinformation, fake news and conspiracy theories. However, I've noticed that Facebook has been trying to debunk such articles, by informing users beforehand. It certainly plays an important role in tackling such practices.

These 'informative' inserts do a great job at exposing their platform for what it is.  Namely, pure corp/gov propaganda and mind control.  I've never had a facefuck account, but when I do run across these 'warning' banners I use it as a tip-off that there might be actual valuable information else it would be flagged by carefully chosen 'narrative controllers.'

I'll mention again that the reason I use the word 'Jewtube' in spite of the potential for it to be mistaken as 'antisemitic' is because ABC corp (holding company of Google) outsources their censorship to the Anti-Defamation League (of B'nai B'rith) and they take full advantage of their censorship powers to promote their various priories.  A lot of these priorities seem downright dangerous to a lot of the people and principles I personally care about.

   Online information can mis lead information for everyone. Today more spreading a fake news or information and because of that more people believe and mis interpret, The best thing to do to avoid this situation we must know and updated of the news, just listened to the reliable resources not just in the people opinion this can help us to avoid Online misinformation.

Will the COVID-19 vaccine cause infertility?
There is no evidence that the approved vaccine will cause a decline in fertility. Although clinical trials have not studied this issue, thousands of trial participants have not yet reported loss of fertility, nor have it confirmed that millions of vaccinated people have had adverse events. Therefore, freedom of speech is not to create rumors. Many people have a low awareness (because of their educational level and educational level), and it is easy to quickly spread rumors. This is very annoying, because everyone’s mouth-to-mouth communication, this thing becomes Really.

Believing any information from internet gotten from one source without further research for confirmation is absolutely wrong especially nowadays that information from internet is actually misleading. I ran into serious trouble when I was trying to get cure for keloid I developed on my skin from youtube video.

Online Misinformation


One major word is Wikipedia! The best of them include the truth here and there.


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Indeed, Wikipedia is not and will never be a reliable source. But it can be a secondary source for informal arguments and knowledge, but its better to look for other sites as much as you can, and avoid wikipedia.

Theres a reason why wikipedia is never been accepted as source for researches for these past years

There are informations one can get from a trusted source and you will not think of making any further investigation about it,when you'll believe it correct.I know most informations online can mislead,but there are some sources,blogs that do not post wrong informations.

But when one finds out that an information from a particular site is wrong,it is a lesson for that individual not to rely on a particular site for information,he must do further research to ensure that his findings are true.Nevertheless there are some manners in which these bloggers present their information atimes,that if you are not enquisitve about researching more,you will be lead astray.So therefore,we must be watchful about informations we find online.

The internet seems to be the best and reliable source of information overload, but the bitter truth is that, most information online are mostly Sugar-coated as well galvanized with lies, reporters are being paid to give an information the way the rich wants it.
I can attest to the fact, during the pandemic the death rate and Covid rate was totally altered to an extent in some Countries so as to make funds and other selfish interest of the Politicians definitely.
Information gotten online should be gotten from the source before totally agreement with the piece of information.

Their goal of sharing information is good. but the problem is when they don't filter the information they receive. Today's online media make any news for the sake of traffic. they make news that will make them go viral. even things that don't make sense are made as attractive as possible and can be trusted even though they are hoax . Now what must be educated is the person. because online media is already a lot of strange and excessive in making headline or news.

There are websites that promote hoaxes and conspiracy theories on purpose, just to attract visitors, in order to generate income. On top of that, such posts are being shared numerous times, and reproduced by conspiracy theorists, reaching an extremely wide audience. It's really disturbing and in those cases, charges should be put to the creators of that content.

Those spreading irrelevant information I think they do that to trend some have taking it to be a hobby.  Bloggers or some think spreading fake news and write is the only way which money can be generated for them. This trait is all over the Internet and it is increasing in daily basis.  We should be very and cautious of any information we see on the Internet.