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@smartereveryday 5 лет назад

Hey guys... this stuff is pretty serious to me. I want to be able to accurately discern truth in all that I do, so the techniques that Katy taught me here were super helpful. I hope you are able to use them as well. MediaWise has been using the hashtag #IsThisLegit across all social media, so tag them on Insta or Twitter (Where a lot of misinformation happens) and they'll get a team to help you figure it out. Also, the upcoming series I'm doing on Algorithmic Manipulation is going to be a very hardcore look into the inner workings of RU-vid, Twitter, and Facebook. I hope you'll subscribe (bit.ly/Subscribe2SED ) and consider watching this 3 part series with me. I've never done a series like this, so I hope you find it to be as fascinating as I have while doing the research. Thank you very much for watching my internets. I'm grateful.

@britzwickit 5 лет назад

Hey destin , really appreciate a look into what’s bothering you. As always well researched and written. Thank you

@anthony9869 5 лет назад

I appreciate your video and took it seriously but reading the comments I have some concerns is it true your good friend reporter realies on Washington post ?

@jonathanfarmer2362 5 лет назад

Destin, thank you so much for doing a video on this topic. I was literally sitting here in my car at wits end regarding certain family members I have and certain things they have come to believe based on these types of newsources. I am hopeful this is just what we all needed to clear the air. Cheers bro

@Mageek51 5 лет назад

Hey, the bit[dot]ly link has the parenthesis in the link

@jordankelley6005 5 лет назад

Thank you for this! It answered questions I’ve been having for a long time!

@besmart 5 лет назад

I have journalism training and a PhD and I *still* get tricked sometimes. Even when your guard is up, things can slip by your truth filter. Important: When that happens, own up to it, and correct your shares/retweets publicly. We can be a much more effective filter together than any of us can be alone.

@camelopardalis84 5 лет назад

Famous youtuber commenting and only one like so far. I must be early. I spend too much time on youtube.

@wolframalpha8634 5 лет назад

This comment will hit 1k likes soon

@z-beeblebrox 5 лет назад

It would be nice if people did that, when getting called out for sharing misinformation, instead of being smarmy and saying "I know I just wanted to start a conversation :)"

@rabidsamfan 5 лет назад

@@jamescollier3 Globally? Or Locally? The disruption of the Arctic weather patterns affects us, sure, but how are the temperatures in other parts of the world? What about the rest of the year? How many record breaking Temps are hot and how many cold? What about the last ten years? Trends aren't defined by a single point of data.

@e1123581321345589144 5 лет назад

@@jamescollier3 No it's not. It's actually way warmer than recent years. Last year we had 10cm of snow on spring equinox and iced up roads. This year's forecast shows 13° and rain, with a max of 18° on Sunday. Compare that to last year when temperatures frequently fell bellow 0 during this time.

@echosmyth5021 5 лет назад

The biggest problem I see is that the people who are regularly guilty of propagating misinformation aren't concerned about any of this. Their concern is driven solely by confirmation bias. "Does this fall in line with my beliefs? If yes, retweet." "Does this fall in line with my beliefs? If no, research and look for false information. If no false information is found, discard tweet and pretend you never saw that tweet."

@dazzlemasseur 4 года назад

that's deep man, retweeting information that doesn't fall in line with out beliefs when it is true should be something we do. same as reporting something tha fall in line with our beliefs when it is false.

@ole781 4 года назад

Smart way to handle it

@b0b0- 4 года назад

At the beginning of the video he basically said that he is being paid by media-wise to make this video. Creepy.

@ArtyAntics 3 года назад

Even if it falls in line with your beliefs you still need to check out if it is true, the posts they covered were examples of this. You can find something that sounds good but if it’s fake you’ve undermined your own point...

@echosmyth5021 3 года назад

@@ArtyAntics I think you need to re-read my post. I start off by saying, "...propagating misinformation...".

@michaeldeardeuff693 5 лет назад

"Learn to Discern" should go on a poster like those old WWII ads. Like "Loose lips sink ships".

@JohnJones1987 5 лет назад

"I noticed that the experts at providing me news was incorrect on a topic." "I went to the experts about the incorrect news publication. They told me to only trust experts."

@MrWhite2222 5 лет назад

Should have contacted Poppy Gloria if you want the truth.

@cavemann_ 5 лет назад

Or Gloria Borger.

@The_NSeven 5 лет назад

The biggest news source

@samdrummond5431 5 лет назад

The most respected news source

@Krispykleenex 5 лет назад

Rise 9 year old army

@Vincent-fv1ch 5 лет назад

Poppy Harlow or Gloria Borger?

@anthonycamillos3719 5 лет назад

Personally I'm cautious of any "news" that trys to evoke emotion instead of conveying information. Emotions generally stop people from thinking rationally.

@morosis82 5 лет назад

I'm fine with the writer having an angle, as long as they state why and back it up with the data - all of it, not just a cherry picked subset. If someone uses the words 'common sense', that's an absolute red flag.

@declup 5 лет назад

It seems to me that the three main news t.v. networks in America -- MSNBC, CNN, and Fox -- despite claims of objective journalism, instead peddle emotion. Outrage and fear are seductive; they capture people's attention. So rather than disseminating dry but actionable information (e.g., long-term statistics and policy minutiae), the three produce dramatizations of sociopolitical conflict: replete with flashy chyrons, foreboding background music, and non-stop chatter of self-righteous indignation.

@r08800 5 лет назад

Emotion is a personal thing. Stark facts can evoke an emotion. If you get worked up about the information that's out there then that's on you and not the information provider.

@declup 5 лет назад

@@bosstowndynamics5488 -- I agree. For various reasons, most, if not all, media sources limit the technical depth of their products of reporting. E.g., they want to appeal to a general audience and they probably suspect a general audience would find thorough treatments with specialized terminology off-putting or unintelligible. I understand why media outlets tend to prefer lighter fare with an affecting hue. Indeed, often this strategy, depending on the complexity and importance of the subject and the expected acumen of the target audience, is entirely justifiable. I do believe, however, that, overall, the media has excessively low expectations of itself and of its audience. People, to some extent, can and should stretch themselves to understand more-technical treatments. That being said, still, to me, the big three seem to be particularly egregious examples of pandering foisted as journalism. I have a simple standard for journalism -- perhaps overly simple in some cases but sufficient, I believe, for most: Journalism should provide useful information -- that is, factual analysis that allows a significant share of an outlet's audience to make informed decisions that will likely improve their lives. Many media outlets meet this standard. E.g., helpful reporting might include weather, finance, and local-business-and-gov't columns in newspapers, consumer reports, popularizations of science, trade journals, youtube videos like this one, and community pamphlets advertising coming attractions and events. Usually, though, at least in my estimation, the big three do not. "Ten More Reasons to Hate Team Red/Blue" and "Prospective Candidate X For Election 2035 Trails in the Polls" seem unlikely sources of practicable information.

@QuasiELVIS 5 лет назад

You should be less worried about their emotive headlines and more concerned with what they're actually reporting.

@Stefan-jv8zk 4 года назад

“In partner ship with google”..... lol all faith that this is non biased went straight out the window

@jeffpraterJSF 4 года назад

This can’t happen without being associated with something

@JesseDishner 4 года назад

So this guy/channel is a "hire-able social media influencer"

@yoblazes 3 года назад

@@JesseDishner how stupid are you? You're pissed because you see more, "liberal" media outlets fact checking and following basic human ethics than Fox News.

@yoblazes 3 года назад

Are you seriously considering strawmaning freaking Google???? Okay dude, get off RU-vid - because they are owned by google - and take a stroll down to the public library because that's LITERALLY what you just pigeonholed yourself into.

@yoblazes 3 года назад

With that logic - if you can't trust google - you cant trust the internet. Regardless - you do realize that Google is just an aggregator, right? Or is your brain to simple to understand that?

@densealloy 4 года назад

Lateral reading..I've been doing this for years without knowing it was something. I currently have 87 tabs open on my browser lol.

@mdashifali9266 3 года назад

87 wtf

@AlexM-xj7qd 2 года назад

how much ram do u have

@BoorishM 5 лет назад

Anything emotionally charged is a huge red flag, especially rage baiting articles.

@fran6b 5 лет назад

@Feintgames 5 лет назад

Yes, if it perfectly illustrates a point you support or perfectly enrages you, it's probably fake. An "orgy of evidence," rarely exists.

@2darki 5 лет назад

Pretty much every kotaku article!

@Orandu 5 лет назад

Marc omg y r u so mean? There is only luv! Stop pooping on my rainbow cupcake with your stupid logic! Like; o my god: Emotional intelligence is 4eva!

@pcfllms 5 лет назад

Atlas Hugged I know write. I feil as ef theis pople are tring to rooin us.

@CorporalDirge 5 лет назад

You used to be able to check comment sections to find where the articles made mistakes and find links to the article's sources as well as other sources. Most biased news articles disable comment sections now.

@TheKlickitat 5 лет назад

use dissenter. Anyone can then comment on any article even if the media took out comments.

@wisetrollman 5 лет назад

Lot of news sites disable comments because they are flooded with trolls from (probably) state-funded troll farms, totally poisioning the well and destroying any chance of a constructive discussion. The days of idealist look at the internet is gone, things got pretty serious.

@CorporalDirge 5 лет назад

@@TheKlickitat I do :-)

@padkirsch 5 лет назад

Agreed, but Just because it's a well known source doesn't make it true or honest or not one-sided! 🔥 Definitely cross-check information and varied sources.

@WMDistraction 5 лет назад

This is true, but to be sure, well-known sources that are generally less biased ("unbiased" is basically a Platonic ideal), such as NPR (less biased trending centrist), NYT (less biased leaning liberal, outside their recent op-eds which have been... weird), and WSJ (less biased leaning conservative, outside their op-eds which tend to be aggressively pro-Republican, as opposed to NYT which are pro-progressive/pro-liberal while not necessarily being pro-Democrat, though they do that sometimes, too), are great places to get initial information on something because you can be relatively confident that they're not usually going to publish some absurd version of the truth (again, outside many NYT/WSJ op-eds). The crux of your claim is still true, though: It's generally a bad idea to get your news from a single source, and it's always a good idea to check (reputable!) sources against one another so that you have a better idea of what the story "actually" is.

@MoarteaLunii 4 года назад

@@WMDistraction You're backwards

@WMDistraction 4 года назад

@@MoarteaLunii Very insightful argument you made there.

@MoarteaLunii 4 года назад

@@WMDistraction I know libtard.

@WMDistraction 4 года назад

@@MoarteaLunii Cool troll. Nice talk.

@edgeeffect 5 лет назад

Seems to me that the TL;DR of this is "apply the same principles you would use to asses a scientific paper to everything you read".

@brokenacoustic 5 лет назад

Sadly, there are people out there that dont care if their news is accurate...they want to hear things that fit their views, not challenge them. The media outlets know this, and give them what they want to hear, and repeat.

@johnhbaumgaertner8948 5 лет назад

They think the ideas in this video are an attempt at censorship.

@ImAssassinX 5 лет назад

Which applies to whatever side you are on.

@Muskar2 5 лет назад

@Henrik Wallin Algorithms drown the people saying "I'm not sure that's true" and emotional responses that a lot of people relate or react to are at the top either because it attracts likes and/or comments. I don't see honest pragmatism as a viable solution.

@johnhbaumgaertner8948 5 лет назад

@Henrik Wallin I think you misunderstood my comment. Censorship does not equal fact-checking at any level. But simple-minded folk, the vast majority of humanity, see fact-checking as an evil attempt to exert control over them.

@johnhbaumgaertner8948 5 лет назад

@@ImAssassinX I don't think it has anything to with sides. It just applies to everything. Sometimes it's just a photo of a giant spider.

@eidolor 5 лет назад

This is exactly why the only sources I trust are The Onion and natural, grass-fed springs

@jakobovski13 5 лет назад

and Huffington Post

@pingozingo 5 лет назад

I only read the hard times and click hole

@GNParty 5 лет назад

The Onion is the most reputable source possible.

@steveinsbrook2479 4 года назад

@@jakobovski13 HA HA HA

@glenwaldrop8166 3 года назад

Babylon Bee!!!

@caitlinfrank6206 5 лет назад

I love this channel, you don't just teach me the coolest stuff in the world, but also show us your research and interviews. Not many people are willing to do as much research as you do. That is how I know I'm getting Smarter Every Day.

@hamilpatel4025 5 лет назад

probably the most important video I've seen in a while. VERY important info

@strenght755 5 лет назад

Be aware folks. Not only does this apply to things you see on the internet, but also things people tell you in real life.

@zilianthegreat 5 лет назад

Just reverse image search them

5 лет назад

Well, the things people tell you in real life that isn't personal usually comes off the internet or the news. Your statement shouldn't surprise anyone.

@Killzone626 5 лет назад

The last thing I heard in real life (in a span of a few days) is that Michael Jackson is now officially confirmed a rapist like no doubt about it and that siblings argue 6 times a minute. "Real life" is as bad as the internet. You whip out your phone because you are like wait a second and it takes 5 seconds to figure out that somethings not right, only to ultimately be the party pooper because they were talking about that topic for 10 minutes and now the fact which they based their entire conversation on is just void.

@MrMbc77 5 лет назад

random And also the MSM. Covington kid and Smollett for example.

@markoap91 5 лет назад

The internet is real life, tho.

@HTPCYMC 5 лет назад

SmarterEveryDay DESTROYS my newsfeed with FACTS and LOGIC

@elvistesla3179 5 лет назад

There is nothing but Google bias in this video. Not facts. Certainly not logic.

@fotina45 5 лет назад

I get the reference

@user-cm6sp9iu5r 5 лет назад

6:28

@farenhite4329 5 лет назад

@@elvistesla3179 please at least watch the video, maybe you'll see why it's biased or not.

@huntcringedown2721 5 лет назад

click to find out how

@Tharkz 5 лет назад

One of the first/only videos I have shared to Facebook. Also thank you for telling me what latteral reading is. I do this by instinct when looking at new tech, tech deals or building computers once in a while.

@JTSmithMarketing 3 года назад

This is such an important concept that a lot of people haven't grasped. It holds true for media stories as well, even on your favorite news site that seems reputable. They often jump to be first at a story, or write sensational headlines, or use quotes from popular figures in place of data and evidence. It's important to ask the question "what is the evidence" with even the media stories, and find the actual root piece of data to take in.

@ZZZZXXXXXZZZZ 5 лет назад

Another prob with news & journalism today is that you can literally read 100 articles on the same topic and 99 will just repeat the same sentences almost verbatim. It's BS they regurgitated from another source, with no actual new info or concern for accuracy (and 0 attempt to fact check any of it). It's turning into an indiscrimininant echochamber of misinformative clickbait.

@FRN2013 5 лет назад

I agree with your sentiment, but your use of the word literally, plus the 99-to-1 ratio, bother me. Did you scientifically come up with that equation?

@kdot7175 5 лет назад

@@FRN2013 Its a youtube comment, not a published article. I'm sure this person exaggerated to make her point and express her frustration. As a college student, I can relate. If I see two different articles of the same broad topic, I expect two different sources of information within the same topic but that is not the case every time.

@beaudjangles 5 лет назад

Hot tip, pay for your news. Journalists are working for nothing and under incredible pressure due to cost cutting and lack of revenue. Find a reputable source, get a subscription.

@mouduge 5 лет назад

Good point @Rachel X. This is why Destin tried to search for the image last year: you want to go back to the original source (i.e., the oldest). If you can't find it, it's a red flag.

@MotoJP99 5 лет назад

beaudjangles sometimes this would work, but I’ll ask you this, for paid content, so you not think they could have the drive, based on their audience, to sway things in a way so it appeals to the main audience they’ve got. Opposing views could hurt even more if it’s paid because people will just unsubscribe if they disagree with any little thing.

@danieljensen2626 5 лет назад

My general rule of thumb is to never share "informational" pictures/memes. They're almost always incorrect or over-simplified. Of course funny/cute pictures/memes are fine. For information I only share actual articles from reputable sources, and only if other reputable sources are covering the same topic with more or less the same information. As a result I probably only share things on Facebook once or twice a month. My standards for liking or commenting are much lower.

@llljustcallhimdave 5 лет назад

I think the main problem is people have come to rely on "celebrities" for their news and just take what is being posted by them as factual without ever checking. It would be like asking an x-factor contestant for medical advice and only going with that diagnosis.

@Robobagpiper 5 лет назад

I literally said exactly this 30 seconds before typing this as my wife & I watched this video.

@Nighthawkinlight 5 лет назад

100%. Not only are political memes oversimplified and often false, I go a step further and propose that they are one of the main contributors to the severity of the current political divide. Even when accurate, political memes serve to do only two (very damaging) things: to stroke the ego of those with the agreeing viewpoint, and to present the oppositions viewpoint as a joke that you would have to be an idiot to believe. There is no subtlety, no attempt to understand why people believe differently. According to memes, everyone who does not agree with my perspective is so dumb that it's funny. Humor is powerful, and used in this way it is dangerous.

@0LoneTech 5 лет назад

I find XKCD 925 apropos. And CGPGrey's "this video will make you angry" is a nice primer on what forces act on these messages.

@willierants5880 5 лет назад

Reputable source is also unfortunately a subjective term when it comes to "news". This is not a new problem, this has been a problem since the beginning of information sharing. It's just a more prevalent issue today because there is so much information available to us today.

@codedesigns9284 4 года назад

Amazing set of tools Destin! Thank you for this help. Much appreciated.

@JetX85 5 лет назад

Happy to be watching this channel again. As nice as it is to think about, deleting FB/social media entirely isn't really possible and doing so might cut people off completely from social/work opportunities. I'm glad there are sources like this to educate people on using these social tools responsibly.

@exnomer5002 5 лет назад

*_"Okay, First of All, (because of) The RU-vid Algorithm..."_*

@playerbateman 5 лет назад

is that you blue shirt kid.

@derpmcgerp8062 5 лет назад

In old Soviet Russia, you don't use the Algorithm. The Algorithm uses YOU.

@neomarrodriguez9255 5 лет назад

@@derpmcgerp8062 isn't that everywhere?

@derpmcgerp8062 5 лет назад

@@neomarrodriguez9255 you're right. We can't stop the Algorithm. You can only assimilate. Praise be the Almighty Algorithm. Resistance is futile.

@vebulous 5 лет назад

@@derpmcgerp8062 ...in modern culture, Algorithm uses you. Ergo: modern culture = soviet russia

@hedgeearthridge6807 5 лет назад

0:41 Reminds me of Rene Descartes's epistemological horror (Cartesian Doubt). "How many things I believe are true, are actually falsities and lies? How do I find and correct the things I think are true, but are actually false? How to I prevent myself from believing more falsities in the future?"

@windjaturtle 4 года назад

"It's supported by google" Well, seems like nothing wrong could happen here...

@nancyjones6235 2 года назад

Ah--an ad hominem attack. So did you actually watch and figure out that nothing the journalist said would help you find out if an article was real? Or did you dismiss it at "google?"

@hakrj12 5 лет назад

"You shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet" --Abraham Lincoln

@CamdenWallraff 5 лет назад

I never get tired of this "quote" xD

@frog273 5 лет назад

That's smart on so many levels :D

@gotindrachenhart 5 лет назад

That's how WWII got started after all :)

@DCS026 5 лет назад

I thought that was Benjamin Franklin....let me Google...

@AZZAMNO1 5 лет назад

lmao 😂😂😂

@wishiwasabear 5 лет назад

I saw the title and shared this video instantly, oh wait...

@aunikaolsen8671 5 лет назад

You do so much good! And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it! Thank you for the positive, uplifting and informative mission that you continue to carry on.

@parissaizan3769 4 года назад

I ran into this problem years ago. Gone are the days as a little kid reading the local newspaper and thinking - "that's the way it is". So I started reading 7 online newspapers from 7 different countries. This helped me realized that most American news sources online are not only 'partisan' but they seek to manipulate your point of view. However, once realizing that, it made me realize that I was not a member of the society those other 7 newspapers were from and therefore, what I was reading SEEMED like the truth but I really had no way of knowing. Therefore, I spend more time in Science and this too bothers me. I take walks around the area and nature provides a peacefulness that I don't fuss over this. So thank you for visiting this extremely important subject!

@Yuri-bt4wl Год назад

"This helped me realized that most American news sources online are not only 'partisan' but they seek to manipulate your point of view" This is true for other countries too. Most likely all of them.

@steve8t2 5 лет назад

No links to OODA loop story research? Red Flag!

@agimasoschandir 5 лет назад

Maybe Wikipedia has becomed assumed at this point?

@vebulous 5 лет назад

I broke the OODA loop sim. Set both jets to 5000ms, and they stop fighting. Like an allegory about how if society just slowed down a bit, we may have less internal conflict. And another glitch: set both to 250ms, and they both just go in circles. Another allegory on how the faster we go, the tighter the unending loop. Seems like they stopped fighting again though, since the G's are probably wreaking havoc on those simulated pilots.

@agimasoschandir 5 лет назад

@@samuelbellos8283 In other words, the video suggests you do your research, not just rush to declare fake or true. Wikipedia is so often given as a source is the reason I suggested it was assumed, i.e. research would be done

@kennethhicks2113 5 лет назад

Baa Baa Black Sheep, Pacific WW2 Greg

@zeitgeist909 5 лет назад

@@vebulous link to the sim, please?

@6Twisted 5 лет назад

I hate people who share things without checking them first. It's just plain ignorance. But what annoys me the most is the "professional" news outlets who do it for clickbait titles.

@garn5341 5 лет назад

I agree, but if the honest news sources can get you to read the article, by using BS click bait titles, and 'then' give you the facts, that might not be all bad. Although I realize most of them do not do that, most just want the clicks. I only mention this because the people that do NOT care about facts are going to use click bait titles, and due to that they will start getting all of the traffic, and the requital sites, with real news, will start being left behind. It almost to the point the real news 'needs' to be click baity these days. It's a sad game they/we are all playing with one another. And why I think it is so important that people like Destin share information like this. Most people will probably ignore the advice in this video, but for the ones that truly do care, and just didn't know this, it will truly be beneficial for.

@EuroWarsOrg 5 лет назад

Like CNN getting sued for 250 million because they lied...

@morganfreeman1906 5 лет назад

Like CNN? “Also interesting is, remember, it’s illegal to possess these stolen documents. It’s different for the media. So everything you learn about this, you’re learning from us.” -Chris Cuomo, CNN anchor

@bdemaree 5 лет назад

Reminds me of the first time Powerball hit $1B. Saw that "if we all split it it'd be like ten grand for every American" meme at least a dozen times. Took me all of 1 second to calculate $1B divided by 300,000,000 equals $3.33. Then I got to make my family members look stupid.

@saoulidany4568 5 лет назад

Si youll hate Fox news, CNN, the New York Times...yada yada first and formeost...right ?

@deepakpatel2292 5 лет назад

This is by far in my mind the most important video of yours. Very informative. Thanks!

@EarsandGears 5 лет назад

Very important topic, and a great video. Thank you Destin, for helping us be a part of the solution.

@balinne 5 лет назад

Great video, but here’s the problem: People don’t care if something is true or not and are easily duped by rage bait headlines. Covington Catholic is a perfect example of this.

@VariantAEC 5 лет назад

Not only that but weren't the idiot journalists at CBS, NBC, ABC and a whole host of other news outlets previously considered reputable? I mean these reputable sources didn't do their own fact checking either so who do you trust. *DO NOT BLINDLY TRUST MEDIA.* WISE

@danielycarlos 5 лет назад

I think that's the reason this video was made...

@VariantAEC 5 лет назад

@Peanut Butter Many people would consider these kinds of sources "reputable". The problem is that every news institution lies from time to time.

@VariantAEC 5 лет назад

@Peanut Butter Many do including Fox News so...

@timpaffrath3599 5 лет назад

"Think of your social media feed like it's a warzone" Thats a briliant quote, welcome to the future

@JoelMartinez 5 лет назад

This truly does need to be the biggest takeaway here

@diamondflaw 5 лет назад

Dovetails nicely into his previous video where the general talked about the weaponizing of social media and other information.

@alvallac2171 5 лет назад

*That's (contraction of "That is")

@djisar-official 5 лет назад

@@alvallac2171 Oh thanks, we were all so confused.

@mattmarzula 5 лет назад

Only it isn't. In a war zone I can eliminate a threat with a certain finality. Here? Everything is archived and people are protected by anonymity and distance. Let me put it to you this way. The Young Turks are still alive and even if it is people exhibiting the stupidity and biases of those liberal jackasses, I am still reminded of their existence. If they all died tomorrow, their pernicious ideology and biased media would still exist. And that is where the damage is done. Persistent existence.

@ahhgetemoffme 5 лет назад

Just one of the reasons I closed my social media accounts.

@fuckyouleftube 4 года назад

good for you man im proud of you! i did the same YEARS ago! i have a gift in life and that is to see ahead like an intuition of sorts so i tell people this STOP using it! you give them power/data/billions! what do you get? a swat team at your door because you made a joke? or perhaps have different views then the slave mob? Turn it off! and be free again!

@epauletshark3793 3 года назад

Why I never used social media in the first place.

@fistpunder 5 лет назад

Great content and good insight. So much is shared without verification. I see articles all the time where I look at the information and find it is out of date or just plain incorrect. And I followed the Poynter news feed along with Twitter, also shared this video. I hope more people read and watch this. Great work!

@yoloswaggins2161 5 лет назад

Gloria Borger is the only news source I can trust.

@fornavnetternavn6279 5 лет назад

Yolo Swaggins Poppy Harlow is also very reliable.

@derpmcgerp8062 5 лет назад

You normies. Clearly Poppy Gloria is underrated.

@staggeredgore9910 5 лет назад

@@derpmcgerp8062 Indeed but have you heard of Pew News

@avocares 5 лет назад

Never heard of Gloria Borger so I looked her up, then went through 2 months of her Twitter timeline. Almost exclusively Trump or presidential tweets, like politics stops at the white House. Did not go away with a fair and balanced feeling.

@KB-ld7jw 5 лет назад

I agree.

@Tranbarsjuice 5 лет назад

Something that helps as well is to not use Facebook and other social media as your news source :)

@Killatomate85 5 лет назад

source: NASA AHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHA. my tummy hurts

@odw32 5 лет назад

The annoying part is that so many seemingly "credible" news websites use Facebook, Reddit and Twitter as THEIR source.

@NetAndyCz 5 лет назад

@@odw32 Or RU-vid... and surprisingly often I read news articles based on what people posted in comments (or on facebook)... I mean the report may be completely accurate, but who cares what John Doe 1337 has to say about a picture that may or may not be fake?

@The_NSeven 5 лет назад

I really only use the news tab when you open a new tab on chrome

@bryanmcpherson2959 5 лет назад

My commander used to tell us that in combat (or propaganda) the first report is always wrong, at least incomplete. Thanks for the video.

@vidadvocate9522 5 лет назад

Dear Destin...thank you for creating this. Around 10 years ago, my old boss told me '...that years ago in her Journalism class, they could not print or publish unless they had triple checked everything in their story. Now, she said the media is told to 'Get it out there first, we'll print the retractions and apologies later.' That sure seems the case to me. Thanks again.

@buzzthebuzzard5267 5 лет назад

The sad thing is most journalist today just source other journalist saying things on Twitter in a game of telephone. Original sources of information are rarely scrutinized and usually taken at face value even if it seems absurd.

@johndoe9200 5 лет назад

The worst part is when they say its from an anonymous source. That could be anybody and we wouldn't be able to know

@danieljensen2626 5 лет назад

I think it would be more accurate to say that most people involved in media aren't journalists anymore. Compiling Reddit jokes, summarizing RU-vid videos, and referencing tweets are not journalism, but they are what brings in the money unfortunately.

@chinook700 5 лет назад

Do you have a source for this statement?

@chinook700 5 лет назад

@@danieljensen2626 Maybe thats why he says to find reputable sources rather than whatever pops up on your newsfeed. The onus is on you now.

@maverick9708 5 лет назад

covington gate was a great example of how this is true and how doing the misinformation steps would mislead you potentially

@paystation4pro15 5 лет назад

So there aren’t 69 hot singles in my area?

@agimasoschandir 5 лет назад

How large is your area?

@paystation4pro15 5 лет назад

Agimaso Schandir Yes

@RamkrishanYT 5 лет назад

There are, they just aren't interested in you

@Merennulli 5 лет назад

If you haven't, look up XKCD 713 (GeoIP). Probably the best take on those ads I've seen.

@maxischmidt1299 5 лет назад

Can't like your comment, because i would destroy your 69 likes..

@daviddion6728 4 года назад

I did some checking re: MediaWise. I found that some of their MediaWise Ambassadors are known for biased reporting. Makes me very skeptical about the MediaWise site being a legit source for unbiased information.

@bobkeeler5964 4 года назад

I discovered this as well

@sid6645 3 года назад

Well, the three step process is universally useful.

@Pharmaman100 3 года назад

and and google are clearly leaning left

@joedeering5287 3 года назад

Care to cite your sources?

@JTSmithMarketing 3 года назад

It's kind of like Snopes. They are fantastic when talking about actual fake images, myths, and hoaxes. But as soon as politics is involved, it's like they turn into an opinion column. No evidence is anywhere to be seen, and their ratings become completely arbitrary. Anybody else notice that?

@lancelot1953 5 лет назад

Hi Destin, my hat to you. I am a Veteran and at the War College, we learned about COL Boyd's "OODA Loop" (which incidentally has been extended to fields other than Air Combat (such as Land Battle Maneuvering). I was greatly impressed that a non-military person (I think) as you would have found that information to support your video productions. Thank you for such a very important topic discussion (and critique), Ciao, L

@timlong7289 5 лет назад

That's really solid advice. An old physics lecturer of mine once told me: "Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see". It is a maxim that's served me well for many years. I would only add: you need to be careful who/what you consider to be an "authoritative source". Your friend's eyes lit up when she saw Washington Post, but she's exhibiting confirmation bias in my opinion. WP has been as guilty of fake news and "dog piling" as everyone else. So yes, give them a bit more weight if you trust them, but don't assume they are always right.

@nedisahonkey 5 лет назад

That is possible but it could also be possible that her eyes lit up because it was a much better source than the tumblrs and reddit they had seen to that point. Not to mention Woodward and Bernstein worked for the Washington Post so if that image was real it would have likely been taken or published there.

@timlong7289 5 лет назад

@@nedisahonkey Sure, I agree. We all have our trusted sources. What I caution against is accepting something or someone as a trusted source simply because someone else tells you to.

@nedisahonkey 5 лет назад

@@timlong7289 Of course.

@speedy01247 5 лет назад

Another thing if you like everything a site is saying, it may not be trustworthy. News is not all happy stories or stories that show one side in the wrong light.

@andrewlhoover 5 лет назад

Step 1a: don't get your news from social media.

@tolga1cool 5 лет назад

That's a hard concept to grasp for some people sadly

@Nosirrbro 5 лет назад

Yup

@HappyMadScientist 5 лет назад

What about Ben Shapiro?

@SpencerTwiddy 5 лет назад

Andrew L Hoover sadly, if you don't it's no longer "news," more like "olds"

@SpencerTwiddy 5 лет назад

Andrew L Hoover no other news medium can keep up

@jg2783 5 лет назад

Thank you Destin! I felt at a loss to know how to navigate the changes in our news ecosystem well. I now feel empowered with practical habits I can develop for myself and teach to my kids. I wonder a lot about what the world will be like in ten years when they graduate and how to prepare them. Navigating social media well without becoming a tool for nefarious purposes is and will continue to be a huge part of good citizenship.

@scottmeredith3359 3 года назад

The simple fact that Google was involved in this immediately set all my alarm bells off.

@JerryRigEverything 5 лет назад

Solid video. Thank you for making it.

@Suchen_Wahrheit 5 лет назад

i love shaved head more than your channel. you look friendly

@showaibzaman400 5 лет назад

^_^

@smartereveryday 5 лет назад

Thanks man

@anthonyx3576 5 лет назад

Why not shot put and other Olympic Events, could have a ton of material in physical aspects alone

@thomas.02 5 лет назад

Social media misinformation is like office gossip but on serious steroids

@nathanlarson6011 5 лет назад

I've been taking a GIS course and was introduced to the idea of mapping things we see, hear, feel, smell, and taste. Looking specifically at mapping out the sounds around us, we were discussing how these environmental sounds can influence how we feel on a daily basis. I am not sure if engineers look at how their designs shape sound, such as the hum of a refrigerator or heater, but I think it would be cool to investigate how the sounds around us can influence our mood and see if it is possible to alter their noise to something new and harmoniously positive. I love the videos, thanks for making them!

@stellarpod 5 лет назад

Very useful information. As always, thanks for sharing. Steve

@frankdukep 5 лет назад

and most important of all. *Don't use social networks to read news*

@PatrickOliveras 5 лет назад

Problem: most news publishing outside social networks are authored by someone that does use social networks. It's hard to just push the problem away :(

@xliquidflames 5 лет назад

@@PatrickOliveras Right. It's not just a matter of not using social media. We have to use our brains a little and read everything with a bit of skepticism until we can get to the truth of the story. I wish it were that easy, though. But even if you go straight to the source and just read stories from CNN, Fox, PBS, Axios, Vice, or any other news outlet, you're still at the mercy of the author and where they got their information which is sometimes social media.

@PatrickOliveras 5 лет назад

@@xliquidflames social media accelerates the news cycle. I think the reason there used to be reliable journalism at all is because the fact checking part could easily fit in the process, time-wise. We should find a way to fit it back in at all. In the meantime, the best we can do is be better news consumers, but I don't think it's a scalable or sustainable approach. I really don't have any good solutions.

@mulgerbill 5 лет назад

It has its uses, but only as one [u]small[/u] point in a mesh of inquiry.

@erdemmemisyazici3950 5 лет назад

Because it takes money to make real news, then the two people who own news tell the anchors what to say.

@Ranulf13 5 лет назад

well it reminds me again of that: “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” ― Mark Twain

@jonathanlucas9643 5 лет назад

I like that quote. The only problem is that nobody knows the source of that quote, and it was not necessarily from Twain.

@alvallac2171 5 лет назад

Ironically, if you look this quote up, there is no evidence that Mark Twain was the one who said this.

@rsoulinternet 5 лет назад

@@rwantare1 He might have been quoting Mark Twain

@elizabethashley42 5 лет назад

"Nobody every wrongfully attributes quotes to famous people on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln

@josephprows7569 5 лет назад

That's a bit simplistic.

@SuperSeagull12 5 лет назад

3:04 this is a really good moment to mention how important it is to not make the "retweet" decision personal. It's about the content you're retweeting, not you. It's obvious that the topic of the tweet was important to her. Similarly you might come across poor quality content that really speaks to something you care about. In such a case, rejecting that content can feel like you're rejecting yourself, or the importance of the topic that matters to you. But you're not! If the image in the tweet is fake, and there's no sources, etc - it's just bad content. Not sharing it doesn't mean that the issue that matters to you isn't important. If you really need to you can go and look up reputable sources for that same topic and post that instead of retweeting the post with the fake image, for example. So make sure not to make it personal when evaluating if something in your news feed is true or false.

@sputnut 4 года назад

Everyone should be required to watch this at least twice. Very important information for us all. One question, what is up with the red rocket thing above you map? It keeps changing...

@EliteProductions3129 5 лет назад

I'm sorry, but did you say that "Twitter fights misinformation" at the end? Hahahahahaha

@flacjacket 5 лет назад

Anybody who believes that needs to go watch the JRE episode with Jack Dorsey and Tim Pool.

@jackielinde7568 5 лет назад

Well, Twitter does "fight misinformation", but it's like watching your younger brother in a slapfest nerd fight.

@theenkryptedpress 5 лет назад

You spoiled the ending for me. I will watch it and maybe reply more. Twitter is the worst place to get news! And every time MSM uses Twitter or Facebook as a source, I move on.

@666Tomato666 5 лет назад

oh, but they do! They have 2 people and 1 intern working on this problem full time! /s that warehouse with 1500 people? they work on "monetization" and "engagement"

@bmoney2011 5 лет назад

right? They let Alex Jones have a platform for as long as they did. dude hasn't said a truthful thing since the day he learned how to speak.

@maxwellssilverhammer 5 лет назад

Even news from "reputable sources" get it wrong sometimes. Do not lean too heavily on one particular source.

@johnc646 5 лет назад

Example: the RuSsIa investigation.

@RebornLegacy 5 лет назад

@@johnc646 Hahaha, the entire investigation? Bullshit. Sure specific stories might go to far, but don't act like the entire story is fake news. You're simply delusional.

@streglof 5 лет назад

"sometimes"

@KearnuPhoenix 5 лет назад

"Sometimes" ... you're funny, guy

@DFX2KX 5 лет назад

@@streglof yes, sometimes. They're not 100% reliable, but they're also not 100% unreliable. The simple fact is you have to check more then one source, preferably sources that are disconnected from your own political environment in addition to local sources. Then you find the facts everyone has in common.

@ericsliva1724 5 лет назад

Thankyou, Destin! Very good video and a real wakeup call for us all.

@patchinator7883 5 лет назад

Destin, you are an incredible human. Thanks for everything you do!

@bjarnes.4423 5 лет назад

I'm not part of the problem! Because I don't share stuff...

@xliquidflames 5 лет назад

@@numbereightyseven How do you find out about national and world events? I'm asking because I tried dropping all social media and found it nearly impossible to keep up with what's going on in the world and with my friends and family. I can't imagine not having TV and news on top of that. The breaking point for me was when the last hurricane hit and the only way anyone was communicating to say they were okay was FB and FB Messenger. I had to reactivate my account to check on everyone because I was the only one not using it.

@vandalest 5 лет назад

The best method

@FingerThatO 5 лет назад

@@xliquidflames "secular talk" on RU-vid for world events and poltics. Consistent, policy driven, funny guy.

@CheezyDee 5 лет назад

I check FB maybe once every 2 weeks, and every time I do it's a cesspool... that all of my friends help create. My news sources are a local news station when I take a shower and the morning paper.

@FingerThatO 5 лет назад

Another point is check who is funding them. "Scientist" claiming smoking is not hazardous while taking millions of dollars from tabacco company might not be a reliable source.

@Narcase 5 лет назад

But isn't Google bias itself?

@streglof 5 лет назад

yeah and not a little bit either

@nhp8triot506 5 лет назад

Google is openly assisting China to crush free speech in China and doing it here in the US. Conservatives are still being heard even though Google has squashed 80% of their online activity since 2016...American values will prevail even with the bias of Twitter, facebook and Google trying to kill our way of life.

@Veritas-invenitur 5 лет назад

Nh P8triot google is evil

@jacobshirley3457 5 лет назад

All sources have biases. Even reputable ones. What matters is if you can find value despite of the bias.

@TheKiroshi 5 лет назад

Google the company. Yes Google the search engine? Not quite.. its bias to repeat what youve look at before.

@petersenjessem 4 года назад

I love your videos but this one’s my favorite. More influencers need to be encouraging people to seek the truth. Thank you Destin!

@DerQ85 5 лет назад

This is one of the most important issues for this generation as well as the next to come. Thank you!

@oarchitekton3845 5 лет назад

The internet needs more people like you.

@b3sTus3r 5 лет назад

This video and the one you released before this one are absolutely next level. This is not just "smarter every day", it's "blow my mind everyday".

@Killatomate85 5 лет назад

trust google, twitter and NASA. they would never lie to you. yeah it blew my mind how destin can be so gullible. just another tool.

@ivanlagrossemoule 5 лет назад

@@Killatomate85 Aiming propaganda at people who are trying to avoid propaganda is a propaganda tactic of its own. It's difficult to avoid it when you become the target of another layer of propaganda by doing so.

@naidanac1 5 лет назад

@@Killatomate85 Google search engine is an aggragator. If you don't trust it's aggragation abilities, there are other, independent search engines. NASA generally prescribes to the scientific method, and data it puts out is generally regarded as accurate. Twitter is social media, and will put what is 'popular' at the top. The point of the video is that things like Google and Twitter can show you things, but it's up to you to verify

@SwashbucklerSound 5 лет назад

Destin, this was excellent. Thank you. I can't wait for the rest of this series to come out. This is very, very much where my head is at right now. If there's one freedom I hold dearer than any other, it is perhaps the freedom of thought, and that is what is under attack in this age of weaponized memes. If I might plant another bug in your ear-if it even needs planted-as something I would love to see you follow up with some point: It's no mystery that facts can be spun. Surely, as you've read articles from both sides of the aisle, you've seen this in effect. Verb choice, pullquotes, information placement, tone, and more can all impact how we perceive and react to technically factual reporting-namely in the interest in generating and retaining readership in order to put eyeballs in front of the advertisements that fund the news organizations. You're crazy smart, and you care a lot. I would love to see you talk about the cognitive biases that we fall prey to while reading factual-but-spun information, and offer some tips on what we might do to protect ourselves from falling prey to these "glitches" in mental processing that lead us away from thinking fairly and critically about information we come across. Do what you will, but I thought it might be something you'd be interested in exploring and learning more about. Thanks alot, man. Keep up the good work. :)

@RMJIWag 5 лет назад

One of my favorite videos you have done. Thank you!

@JanBabiuchHall 5 лет назад

My girlfriend is studying journalism. I sent her that very image as motivation. Now I'm sending her this video as a reminder to be vigilant and thorough.

@666Tomato666 5 лет назад

@@JackHudler could be worse, she could participate in fascist rallies full time!

@stylis666 5 лет назад

lol XD That should be a good lesson :)

@andrewzhang1290 5 лет назад

666Tomato666 nah man

@ht97hokie 5 лет назад

Rule #0 What is the value of posting it on social media? Rule #-1 Why are you getting your news from social media in the first place?

@LuisAldamiz 5 лет назад

Because we don't trust the bourgeois-owned or state-owned media. I had to totally stop watching TV for example, because 99% of news were fake one way or another, all the content was extremely biased. It's been a year and a half and I don't feel a bit less informed, all the opposite. I still read some mainline media online but no TV at all.

@djw1091994 5 лет назад

The problem is not social media itself but learning to follow trustworthy sources and variety of biases. Also don't click on ads. But then again it gets difficult when the feed is no longer chronological.

@Leo-jt3tc 5 лет назад

@@LuisAldamiz How many channels do you watch? Like 2? The notion the all channels are biased is totally nonsense unless CNN and Fox is ypur definition of "all". The local Fox of my city does a very good job in REPORTING the news rather than giving an opinion on the news.

@LuisAldamiz 5 лет назад

@@Leo-jt3tc - I don't watch TV anymore. I quit 18 months ago or so. I get all my info online: it's much much healthier: there is a much wider range of sources and I can more easily select my sources. TV sucks 200%. Fox is worse than all the other channels together, and that is very difficult to achieve, you must admit. They don't "report", they just spit lies.

@LuisAldamiz 5 лет назад

@Lord Of Onions - So how do you call the class that owns the means of production? It's socialism 101: there are two classes the haves (bourgeois) and have-nots (proletarians), and by having we talk of means of production, not personal property, stuff you use to exploit others as your dependent workers, to milk other people's work. The terms may be a bit 19th century but they are still standard currency for socio-economic analysis. Of course the bourgeois try to pretend that distinction is less clear cut, so they use made up terms like "middle class" for the proletariat (or much of it) but as long as you do not employ workers, in plural, you are still working class, proletariat, have-not, the 90%.

@DJDirtyKirch 5 лет назад

Love that you address this topic. A great read on the matter is Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman that addresses biases.

@TomHarrisonJr 4 года назад

This is the most important and consequential topic of our day. More like this, Destin!

@jingojameslewis4131 5 лет назад

Also I think another main problem for false information online is people like the more dramatic and exaggerated version of everything, which therefore spreads in volume faster resulting in an almost completely different story/s

@ww-pw6di 5 лет назад

Of course people like that, but that's what journalistic integrity is supposed to be. Knowing that there's the easy clickbait and not abusing it. Unfortunately if you've had to scour through a lot of old news papers then you'll know journalists have always been the way they are now and the "journalistic integrity" has always been the shield they use when they get called out on their malicious behavior.

@Ladadadada 5 лет назад

Absolutely. Also simplified versions of a story (to the point where they are misleading or outright wrong) are created faster, consumed faster and are shared sooner than the more complex, nuanced, referenced version of the same story. And these are techniques that we see in even reputable sources.

@baganatube 5 лет назад

Even if the stories were true, social media is still not a place to get news. Social media, almost by definition, provides news that is tailored for YOU, based on your past reactions (so called filtering bubbles). Real news requires 1) responsible journalists/editors, 2) anonymous readers.

@SqueakyNeb 5 лет назад

Well it's the place that people are getting their news, unfortunately. That's why we have so much bullshit floating around.

@aeon4591 5 лет назад

Somewhat long time viewer, first time commenter. You said we should reward people that makes the content and dusting you are amazing. Whatever you post on your channel does make me interested. It doesnt matter what, and i always have that moment of "oh wow, thats cool!". I appreciate this channel and you so much and thank you for doing this!

@stuartsmith5146 5 лет назад

This is likely the most important thing to uncover today. It sucks that it is, but I believe it is. Great job👍🏼

@Jer_Schmidt 5 лет назад

Thank you for making this video! I am totally sick of misinformation.

@eduardogm8236 5 лет назад

Really like your Vids. Great job. Solid work.

@christophergruenwald5054 5 лет назад

It’s just way easier to not be on Facebook or twitter.

@alicareem 5 лет назад

Christopher Gruenwald That’s what I did

@MrRobotman 5 лет назад

Even easier to not even look at the news at all haha.

@HojozVideos 5 лет назад

You're here. If you want to never ever be fake news'd or read conspiracy theories, never ever go on RU-vid.

@culwin 5 лет назад

Or, if you use them, just limit the sources. Like if you use Facebook to see pictures of your grandkids, that's fine, but don't use it to get news from randos. Or if you use Twitter to get announcements from your favorite band, that's fine, but don't read tweets from random "news" sources.

@europeansovietunion7372 5 лет назад

Unfortunately most fake news come from reputable news sources nowadays...

@ekhishar 3 года назад

Thanks for the video! Being able to tell fact from fiction in online sphere is a must have skill that everyone need to have in the age of internet and social media.

@alexlandherr 3 года назад

I don’t get what most people call news from social media, my news intake comes from public service and well-researched articles in newspapers. My news on social media is overwhelmingly from scientific publications and space agencies. This is a very serious issue though, that’s why I appreciate that I got to learn in high school journalistic principles like investigating the origins of a claim and thinking about how to evaluate and assess it. Thank you Destin for making this.

@OceanBagel 5 лет назад

It's sad that people have to be told this kind of stuff. If you're not checking your sources before sharing potentially wrong information, you're part of the problem.

@Nyomdalee 5 лет назад

Exactly what I was thinking the entire time while watching the video. Do people really need to be told to use a bit of common sense these days?

@RuLeZ1988 5 лет назад

Yeah, but to be fair, its also the first time of our society to get confronted with such a open information source and currently we start to openly discuss the situation about this information flow on a global scale. I mean if you look back 20 years ago... what did people had then ? Newspaper and TV ? And also most of this stuff was only local wide, only in your state, city or country. At that time there was no need to teach the people what they had to look up, because these few sources just selected and defined the information for you and also at that time nobody really critically looked at these informations. We are currently in a phase where all this is starting to change, because of the internet. So... its not really sad, but rather eye opening that things changes quite quickly recently.

@gracefool 5 лет назад

The problem is that social media is designed to make it *easy* to share stuff without checking. Two clicks to share something? That's a recipe for mob insanity. We need to make social media *harder*.

@Guevara1015 5 лет назад

RuLeZ1988 I agree, I think it’s unprecedented that mainstream media publish content/articles without verifying that it’s true, and in some astonishing instances where they double down on inaccurate information to appease an audience looking for a certain narrative. The thing that’s most shameful in all of this is the journalists, because one would hope that as a journalist you would feel at least a little bit shameful for purposefully publishing an untruthful piece, but that seems pretty rare these days

@Guevara1015 5 лет назад

gracefool Interesting point, in my opinion there are huge upsides as well as downsides to the accessibility of social media: on the one hand, outrageous events around the world can gain international traction and condemnation when they would otherwise have gone unnoticed has become possible due to ‘virality’, but equally it has degraded the influence and arguably the ethical standard of conventional media. I think «to make it harder » makes a good point, for example if twitter hired an unbiased firm to independently verify trending hashtags/stories for sensationalism and accuracy it could shape the way people consume media. Interesting point thanks for posting it

@ganon8835 5 лет назад

hey destin, for reverse image searching i would really recommend tineye, its way way better than google search and more accurate.

@notapplicable7292 5 лет назад

Their partnered with Google tho.

@Enceos 5 лет назад

@@notapplicable7292 I reverse search images as part of my job, TinEye and Google return quite different results. I use several engines to get to the source: Baidu, TinEye, Google, Yandex. Bing was good until the beginning of this year, their reverse image search just got broken there, it can't recognize cropped/edited images anymore.

@fredrikekholm3718 5 лет назад

Thanks for the tip!

@doggybag71 5 лет назад

Yeah I was thinking the same, using multiple search engines is probably a good idea... The video is sponsored by google though so of course they're not gonna say that.

@AG-pm3tc 5 лет назад

Try imgops, it's even better, it takes all of them to one place.

@BigDH28 5 лет назад

Very excellent video Destin! Thank you for the great information! This helped me a lot! Loved Katie too! 👍

@TheDaveteeter 3 года назад

Thank you for addressing this issues. I did not even know how to ask this but I am horrible and seeing the garbage in the internet!

@PacificNW326 5 лет назад

What if "reputable" sources have been caught lying many times over the years?

@wisetrollman 5 лет назад

Yeah, dont watch Fox News propaganda.

@72dodge340 5 лет назад

Exactly. That seems to be the one thing left unclear here. Just because something is a "reputable source" does not mean it's true. If for no other reason than this is the "appeal to authority" fallacy.

@rabidsamfan 5 лет назад

That's why you do lateral reading. To check against multiple sources. If you stop at Wikipedia, you haven't done the homework.

@TomBoulevard_ 5 лет назад

Or CNN. You look at the source to see if it reputable, but you should also investigate whether there is something to gain by the lie. If so be sceptical.

@72dodge340 5 лет назад

@@rabidsamfan Yes, lateral reading. But note in the video several times she says it's a good sign, like when something is posted by WaPo (!!!!) then they say you should look for "reputable sources"... but they leave out to not fall for the "appeal to authority" fallacy. If you just say "well, the [insert "reputable source" here] says it, so it must be true, then you're not critically thinking and the "lateral reading" has failed you anyway.

@SBFay01 5 лет назад

THANK YOU!!!!!! OMG, this topic needs to be retweeted far and wide. ...but first I need to do some research because I've never heard of mediawise...

@daveno8432 5 лет назад

Something my dad taught me a long time ago. "Never trust anything you hear or read and only trust half of what you see with your own eyes." This from a man who was born in 1917 served 20 years in the military (1939-1959) and taught me much about life. R.I.P Roy 1917-2001

@VagaryEnterprises 4 года назад

Thanks for the effort here. Verifying the source is crucial. I find that checking for your own biases is just as important.

@z-beeblebrox 5 лет назад

If your other video was a weapon, this video is armor.

@matsnyder4501 5 лет назад

@davidhaggerty9850 5 лет назад

Though the resources and techniques may change, this definitely should extend beyond our newsfeeds. Avoid cognitive biases. Choose words with deliberate care and intent. Do research. Trust, but verify. Good reminder. Thank you.

@theredead666 5 лет назад

Now im telling myself : should I share this video? ;)

@jdheil01 5 лет назад

Well done, Destin. Desperately needed.

@DjDolHaus86 5 лет назад

We moved from the information age to the misinformation age so quickly and smoothly that barely anyone noticed, it's so rife that I'm not sure it'll ever be brought under control particularly while their is political leverage and financial gain to be found

@edyflak 5 лет назад

“Funded by Google”. Now I’m not a tin foil hat guy but hasn’t google been shown to have some bias?

@remyllebeau77 5 лет назад

Nah, you don't have to worry about them. It's not like they are heavily involved with the gov't or that they got rid of their "don't be evil" slogan.

@HappyMadScientist 5 лет назад

yes lol

@teeroy7973 5 лет назад

Yeah. Sketch AF

@Jamie-tx7pn 5 лет назад

Trying to spread poorly researched information on a video about stopping poorly researched information?

@rockfarmer2524 5 лет назад

This is your chance to try to answer your own question, isnt it? Apply the OODA loop to your own question "Does google have bias?"

@luiv6075 4 года назад

Whow! Great series. Very insightful and eye opening. I couldn't help but notices you missed an important aspect which most do when trying to solve an issue.The factor of human need to manage normal real life events.Going with what was said on the speed at which information/ads are generated far outweighing that of our speed to research before we post or retweet some piece, the fact that we can simply retweet something as easily as one click, while it could take hours to research one piece of news, would deter people from reposting anything. The ads and fake news will continue to proliferate and we continue stuck in the cycle of unreliable facts. I truly believe that it is up to the corporations which created such systems and cultivated a culture of fake unreliable information to prevent the ease of simply clicking once to repost something as well as continuing to improve their efforts to rid the media frequencies for false information. What they need to do is shut down the entire report capability until they can figure out how to overcome this problem.

@aylbdrmadison1051 5 лет назад

I actually do lateral reading already sometimes. The reason is that it is a fact that there are good, bad, wise, and even utterly and willfully ignorant individuals in every group of humans.