Learning to Critically Evaluate Media Sources:.Lies, propaganda and fake news, A challenge for our age..For every fact there is a counterfact and all those counterfacts and facts look identical online- We need a new way to decide what is trustworthy.FF Having a large number of people in a society who are misinformed is absolutely devastating and extremely difficult to cope with.There is great concern about how we control the dissemination of things that seem to be untrue With news sources splintering and falsehoods Welcome to the world of “alternative facts”. It is a bewildering maze of claim and counterclaim, where hoaxes spread with frightening speed on social media and spark angry backlashes from people who take what they read at face values spreading widely online especially social media,without authenticating or doing professional fact finding - , Can anything be done?breakdown of trusted sources of information as one of the most pressing problems today. In some ways, it’s a challenge that trumps all others. Without a common starting point – a set of facts that people with otherwise different viewpoints can agree on – it will be hard to address any of the problems that the world now faces.Some warn that “fake news” threatens the democratic process itself. “,democracy relies on people being informed truth not half truths, or true lies or distorting facts about the issues so they can have a debate and make a decision,”the persistence and spread of misinformation. “Having a large number of people in a society who are misinformed and have their own set of facts is absolutely devastating and extremely difficult to cope with.” Working out who to trust and who not to believe has been a facet of human life since our ancestors began living in complex societies. Politics has always bred those who will mislead to get ahead.Now we are seeing some of those voices are saying things we don’t like and there is great concern about how we control the dissemination of things that seem to be untrue.” But the difference today is how we get our information. “The internet has made it possible for many voices to be heard that could not make it through the bottleneck that controlled what would be distributed before,...
