How to spot misinformation

[HookEmDanO]

[camobass]

You should start a “link of the day” thread

[Gotfish?]

US Army tips for spotting misinformation: https://www.tradoc.army.mil/social-medi ... formation/

About the worst possible source of information: https://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/that- ... seriously/

Training course to spot misinformation: https://www.poynter.org/courses/how-to- ... on-online/

Crazy uncle tip of the day: if you have heard that someone in your extended family is a crazy uncle and you don't know who it is, then you are the crazy uncle.

[camobass]

Too many links for one day

[sdjiricek]

Supposed conspiracy theorists are right again

https://reason.com/2024/01/10/fauci-to- ... d-on-data/

[camobass]

All these misinformation experts who don’t even know basic biology

[otaymichael]

Supposed conspiracy theorists are right again

https://reason.com/2024/01/10/fauci-to- ... d-on-data/

Yepper, you have to 'believe' Fauci, he's never going to put out 'mis-information'. Shoot anyone who disagrees right?

Fauci to Congress: 6-Foot Social Distancing Guidance Likely Not Based on Data
Republican lawmakers criticized the former NIH official for playing "semantics" about lab leaks and gain-of-function research during closed-door congressional testimony this week.

In closed-door congressional testimony, former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci said that federal social distancing guidance during the pandemic was likely not based on any data, and conceded that the lab leak hypothesis of COVID-19's origins isn't a conspiracy theory.

Fauci's comments came during the second of two seven-hour rounds of transcribed, but non-public, testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. ..."

[Gotfish?]

Misinformation tip of the day: why do you suppose some people don't want you to know how to spot misinformation? And do you think they should be trusted to tell the truth? Answer those questions and you have your tip of the day.

[camobass]

Tip of the day; How to spot a narcissist. Just scroll through this forum and look at who ever posts the most Wikipedia links, offers information and solutions to questions no one is asking.

[HookEmDanO]

It's your choice to be a sucker or not.

you made your choice