Abraham Lincoln Not Everything You Read on the Internet
Exercise you believe everything you lot read online?
"Yous can't believe everything you read on the internet." – Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was right! There is a whole lot of misinformation out there. Some of it is unintentional and well significant, only a lot of it is created deliberately to misinform you. Sure sometimes it'due south just lightheaded things, similar the above quote from Abraham Lincoln. He died in 1865, so of course he didn't actually say that simply it's easy to read something like that and believe i t to exist truthful. Nosotros wanted to share a real quote from old Abe, but even some of the more than conceivable quotes commonly attributed to him like "Whatsoever you lot ar east, be a adept one." and "Y'all can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, only y'all cannot fool all the people all the time." don't seem to have been said by him after all upon further investigation. They're popular quotes though, and somebody said them at some phase.
So what well-nigh the deliberate misinformation, the disinformation, the 'Fake News'? Sometimes it'southward half truths and deliberately omitting information and sometimes information technology'southward about completely made for an agenda. Conspicuously this has much more serious consequences. Allow'southward take a little await at some of what'south feeding the beast, the fake news miracle, what nosotros can do about it and why we autumn for information technology.
Confirmation Bias
We are all susceptible to some types of imitation news. The reason being that we are all more likely to believe something to be true if it confirms our pre-existing beliefs. So if something sounds true to us, we might not hold the source to the aforementioned standards that nosotros should. Nosotros often ignore things that contradict what we believe. Your own bias is something to consider when reading the news. Especially about topics you experience strongly about. Recall about what happens next, practice you tell somebody the thing you read without fact checking it? Do they tell somebody else because they trust you lot?
The Echo Chamber
Practice yous read a lot of news on social media? Practise your friends have the same beliefs and political leanings every bit you? The pages y'all follow, the types of websites you visit all have an impact on what kind of content social media websites show you, and yous are more likely to read things that will confirm your opinions. Possibly yous're not beingness exposed to any new ideas.
Website Spoofing
Y'all might be surprised at the lengths some people volition go to fool you and spread fake news. Basically they completely copy the design of a website, often news sites, and then it looks well-nigh identical to the BBC, or the Irish Times. They will then write an article in a similar format, but it could be completely made upward. Eagle-eyed readers might observe there'south a slightly different font, or minor design deviation, but nearly of us volition assume information technology'south the website nosotros expect information technology to be. So always make sure to check the URL of a website to make sure information technology's what you think it is if you have clicked a link to an article somewhere.
Sometimes these re-create-true cat websites just want to steal your sensitive information, so they will make information technology expect similar the log-in page for your email, or social media sites. Be wary of entering your details anywhere unless you take entered the URL yourself and you know you are in the right place.
URL Spoofing
URL spoofing is similar. There are dissimilar ways that this can exist done. Sometimes the link on social media looks like a proper link from a website you trust, only after you have clicked it you should check the URL because it might not be what it seems. Double check you're in the correct identify, because the URL could really look very similar to the real one. URL spoofing is another manner to steal your sensitive information
Donegal Youth Service is currently working on the 'Get It Correct' Project. Go Information technology Right is an heady new European Project between Romanian Youth Movement for Democracy (RYMD), Donegal Youth Service (DYS) and Inter Alia Greece. The partnership between RYMD and DYS is well established since 2009 and the partnership with Inter Alia is a new venture for DYS. Go It Right is funded through Erasmus+ KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and the substitution of adept practices. The Project focus is on media literacy and providing an opportunity for immature people to examine the concept of Fake News.
Contact Donegal Youth Service on (074) 91 29630, east-mail admin@donegalyouthservice.ie, visit www.donegalyouthservice.ie, or phone call in to us at xvi-xviii Port Route, Letterkenny. We are too on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter. Donegal Youth Service is a registered clemency. Charity No. CHY 15027.
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