Online Misinformation

[Shamm]

  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.

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[tabas]

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"

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.

[Lordhermes]

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 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.

[semobo]

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.

[Zedpastin]

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.

[Ultegra134]

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.

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/

[mu_enrico]

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.

[Ultegra134]

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.

[Zedpastin]

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.

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.

[tvbcof]

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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.

[Zedpastin]

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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?   

[Mauser]

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"

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.

[mu_enrico]

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

In the same article you shared:

Critics also argue that peer review is not effective at detecting errors. Highlighting this point, an experiment by Godlee et al. published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) inserted eight deliberate errors into a paper that was nearly ready for publication, and then sent the paper to 420 potential reviewers (7). Of the 420 reviewers that received the paper, 221 (53%) responded, the average number of errors spotted by reviewers was two, no reviewer spotted more than five errors, and 35 reviewers (16%) did not spot any.

Furthermore:

This misconduct was exposed in 2014 by three MIT graduate students by the names of Jeremy Stribling, Dan Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn, who developed a simple computer program called SCIgen that generates nonsense papers and presents them as scientific papers (26). Subsequently, a nonsense SCIgen paper submitted to a conference was promptly accepted. Nature recently reported that French researcher Cyril Labbé discovered that sixteen SCIgen nonsense papers had been used by the German academic publisher Springer (26). Over 100 nonsense papers generated by SCIgen were published by the US Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) (26). Both organisations have been working to remove the papers.

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.

[Lordhermes]

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.

[arielbit]

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Another thing, its is not misinformation, rather faking

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

[Xinarae*]

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.

[Ultegra134]

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"

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.

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.

[tvbcof]

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.

[Shamm]

   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.

[caryoscar]

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.