Fake news isn’t a partisan issue. Both sides are spreading trash (and I don’t care who’s doing it more...that’s irrelevant). More information is needed and less opinion.
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Apple Launches 'Media Literacy' Initiative to Encourage Critical Thinking and Better Informed Evaluation of News
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Don't we need to have critical thinking first to be able to decide if Apple's critical thinking initiative is genuine before thinking critically like them?
This from a company that censors people they don't agree with. Funny, sad, ironic.
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Absolutely this, as an outsider I see how the mainstream media like CNN NBC CBS Fox etc. are very much pushing an agenda by quoting out of context and editorializing what should be reporting.
If people took the time to listen to what was actually being said they would be horrified by the intellectual dishonesty and manufactured outrage that passes for modern journalism.
Look at Apple News: a platform that pushes establishment media Fake News by default.
Get out of the news-troughs Big Tech is pushing.
Yep, reporting is dead and because one side has been lying, the other side also thinks it's OK to lie so you get situations where one side completely denies any form of climate change and the other side is shouting that everyone is going to literally die in 10 years (The planet will literally be devoid of human life). Or all immigrants are terrible murderers, versus all immigrants are hard-working future Einsteins.
The same has been happening here in Europe, and it's interesting to see their reporting of the yellow vest protests because that is something that at least initially was a nuanced event that was not easy to put into a single frame of reference.
I agree, in that, we need more news but all "news" is selected for the public's consumption. For years and years, I believe, one "news" organization had the slogan "All the news that's fit to print." The "news" providers use their opinion to determine what is "news" and what isn't. Even without considering the way the news is written, the bias of what is news worthy is already baked in the information the public is exposed to on a daily basis. So much is happening in the world and yet all the "news" channels have the same stories. "News" outlets direct and shape the public's opinions on issues from the very beginning of deciding what is "news."
For this topic, I don't think there is an age qualification for falling for fake news...
Eye roll...
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People should be free to be rugged individuals without a censor or nanny trying to tell them what is or is not “misinformation.”
The tech companies are going down a dark road. Apple should stay out of this space and “think different.”
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The problem is many people equate “hate” with “things I don’t agree with” or “things I find distasteful” which is not actually “hate.”
People should be free to be rugged individuals without a censor or nanny trying to tell them what is or is not “misinformation.”
The tech companies are going down a dark road. Apple should stay out of this space and “think different.”
A rugged individualist should see no issue with teaching people critical thinking skills. It's literally teaching people to think for themselves.
The old web had less people who were spreading things that were batsh*t crazy or government bots because the old web had less economical and political impact. I'm not saying they didn't exist, but they didn't exist out in the open in the way they do today with a mainstream audience.
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And why do you think so many people equate hate speech with "things I find distasteful"? Because they don't have critical thinking skills and have the strong urge to blindly hate and block out anyhing they don't agree with.
So a company that is selling a computer with a 5400 rpm hard drive in 2019 wants to encourage critical thinking.
Not just fake news. An American friend told me the US 70s and 80s school system failed massively. Lot of folks from that age think we never visited the moon, dinosaurs never existed and the earth is flat. People back then did not learn how to think critically without falling for some youtube guy talking BS. When I see in the Youtube comments how Americans think the earth is flat I just, well, I am speechless. LOL
Whenever I read an article that I know something about I am appalled by how bad it is - how wrong and profoundly ignorant. After I taught math/stats for journalism students I realized why. My conclusion was the first rule of news is not to get news from journalists - a low IQ bunch of lazy sensationalists.
If you don’t want fake news you need math literacy and a willingness to disregard the narrative of the media and find sources that can give you actual information. Any issue remotely political will be distorted by every side beyond recognition. Such is the age we live in.
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Given the amount of news that exists within your sphere of influence the majority of it is just entertainment. Political news? Voting is the most overrated effort to influence outcomes (well except small local elections where your percent of the decision rises dramatically). Not worrying about news is a life optimization strategy. The news that is by far the most useful for
Me is weather and traffic. The rest is just noise.
If you don’t want fake news you need math literacy and a willingness to disregard the narrative of the media and find sources that can give you actual information. Any issue remotely political will be distorted by every side beyond recognition. Such is the age we live in.
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Given the amount of news that exists within your sphere of influence the majority of it is just entertainment. Political news? Voting is the most overrated effort to influence outcomes (well except small local elections where your percent of the decision rises dramatically). Not worrying about news is a life optimization strategy. The news that is by far the most useful for
Me is weather and traffic. The rest is just noise.
There’s plenty of “fake news” that isn’t even political thanks to the clickbait era, just look at the top results on Snopes.
In high school (granted more than a decade ago now) we spent a good two weeks in English classes talking about what a reliable source is online and doing projects around that. I’m sure that hasn’t changed any since then, if anything even more of that goes on. If people want to blindly believe everything there’s not much you can do about it.
In high school (granted more than a decade ago now) we spent a good two weeks in English classes talking about what a reliable source is online and doing projects around that. I’m sure that hasn’t changed any since then, if anything even more of that goes on. If people want to blindly believe everything there’s not much you can do about it.
If people need to rely on a tech company to teach them "critical thinking skills," we're in a whole lot of trouble already.
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I don't think Apple or any other tech company should be teaching "critical thinking skills."
"Media literacy" means "pay attention only to those sources that we tell you are credible".
Ya think?
It's not like gutting the education system and parents having to work two jobs to make ends meet has helped.