7 Steps to Find Disinformation

Finding Fake News:

With so much “fake” news that is spreading around the world, what can you truly believe? I’ve spoken to so many people that say that they don’t even keep track of all of the small/even somewhat big news because they just don’t know. The bad part of their idea is what if there is something extremely important like the recent government shut down and they don’t know until they realize that it truly effects them and people around. According to Jessica Mason, there are 7 steps to help filter out the disinformation from the real information. One of those 7 steps most people need to do if they are not doing it yet and that is “Identify and differentiate disinformation content creators”. This is where you can go onto the internet and look up the recent news and multiple tabs would pop up, well identifying them is like doing investigative work. You would just first need to look at the URL and see if it’s a .gov, .org, .edu, ect. or is it a .com. When I look at a .com site, I find it kind of both ways so then I would go to the bottom of the article (page) and see if they have a work cited page or a reference and go from there. You can find out the other 6 steps at https://www.interaction.org/newsroom/blog/7-ways-combat-disinformation. [1 image, 1 links, 1 quotation, 227 words]