Always try to read linked articles before boosting or condemning… 🤣
And an addendum - MSM ‘journalists’ (that includes Sky who didn't report on the whole video for some day) try checking your facts rather than believing orchestrated and edited videos.
"Africa's top anti-fake news digital platform, FactCheckAfrica, has announced the launch of an AI-infused platform to assist journalists and ordinary citizens in verifying the accuracy of information."
I question whether one can smell GSR on the decayed (no flesh, just bones left) hand of an individual. A quick and dirty search tells me you need some pretty hefty tech (like an SEM-EDX), which definitely isn't available in this book's setting.
Surmising that this poor bastard shot himself in the chest isn't a difficult step from the visual evidence, though.
Input from a #forensics professional happily accepted and considered, if one sees this.
Gibts schon ein Weilchen, aber da mit Ukrainekrieg, US-Wahlen, Europawahl, Fascho-Propaganda, immer besseren KI-generirten Fakes und populistischen Parteien von C bis F, die alles von erstgenannten nachplappern, weil sie offenbar keine seriösen Argumente haben, immer mehr Bullshit nach dem Motto "Flood the zone with bullshit" auftaucht, hier ein Link aus meinem "nützliche Links"-Ordner, um Zeug, was uns so im Web begegnet, besser verifizieren zu können: https://www.howtoverify.info/#factchecking
"Visitors to the BBC News site will now see a new button saying ‘how we verified this’ underneath images and videos on BBC Verify content. Clicking on this will show what our journalists do to verify the authenticity of images and video."
"After attending ICFJ’s Disarming Disinformation Empowering the Truth Global Summit in March 2023, [Willy] Chowoo developed an idea to leverage smartphones to generate multimedia content that would help deaf audiences become more aware of the overwhelming presence of disinformation."
"Elections Canada is trying to insulate Canadian voters from false narratives and information during the next federal election by launching an online tool to help voters cut through misinformation and disinformation about the electoral process in Canada. The ElectoFacts website... provides factual information to debunk the most common misconceptions observed by Elections Canada officials in recent years."
"Higgins (...) thinks of himself and his @Bellingcat colleagues as 'an open community of amateurs on a collaborative hunt for evidence... an online collective, investigating war crimes and picking apart disinformation, basing our findings on clues that are openly available on the internet.' As such, he can get going on his day’s work while eating breakfast and getting the kids to eat theirs."
How often do you do any fact checking of an article you read or video you watch or podcast you listen to?
Please also comment what you do to fact check. Check that the links actually say what is implied they say? Check the quality of referenced studies? Check new sources? Snopes? Other stuff?
Contrairement aux mensonges des factieux de LFI, notre gouvernement lutte bien contre la précarité qui affecte de moins en moins de Français.
Selon Olivier Véran ce matin, « Nous garantissons cette possibilité, oui, malgré l’inflation et grâce à notre travail, vous pouvez toujours manger votre poing. »
Interrogée sur BFMTV, Olivia Grégoire renchérit avec un message d’espoir : « Et garder l’autre pour demain. »
'Hoosier voters will now have a convenient, secure way to contact the Indiana Secretary of State’s Office with election questions or concerns. The election text hotline is simple to use. Just text the letters ‘IN’ to the number 45995. A secure link will be returned where Hoosiers can submit their question or concern directly to the Secretary of State’s Office.'
'The next day, Mr. Santos didn't seem very happy about the note Xitter had added. He said it wasn't nice of Elon Musk... to add the note to his picture. But Mr. Musk hasn't said anything back to him yet. The users of Xitter added a note to Mr. Santos' complaint that said Mr. Musk doesn't control the notes that are sometimes added to people's posts when they are lying.'
As A.W. Ohlheiser recently wrote in @Vox, the SIFT method, developed by digital literacy expert and CIP research scientist @mikecaulfield, "is a good framework for learning how to evaluate emotionally charged or outrage-inducing online posts in the middle of an unfolding crisis."
The assault by Palestinian militant group #Hamas on #Israel and Israel's counter attacks have led to a great extent of human suffering – and to a flood of #disinformation on social media.
DW's #factchecking team has produced a video that documents several viral fakes and explains how to debunk them.
It occurs to me that anarchists are the best group of people to run an election fact-checking website.
As individuals, we may give temporary strategic support to political parties or candidates we think will do the least harm. But as a movement, we have no loyalty to any party, nor to the state they fight each other to govern. So we can fact-check in a totally non-partisan way, correcting each others' biases as we go.
If I could change one thing in the media this would be it: regardless of status, job or power, never to report known lies.
Look at all the media frenzy every time Putin or Trump open their mouths. If only the media would report as diligently on what leaders who tell the truth say...