How to protect against misinformation on the Internet?

Our days - during the flow of information and general openness. Content, links and various infopovodov so much that distinguish stuffing information and provocation from the real news is often difficult. How to protect against the spread of false information and consumption? There are several ways.

1. Look for the original source

Do any information there is always a point of reference. A place, a person or company with which it all started. Foreign or domestic news agency, TV channel with the live broadcast, a freelance correspondent from the scene - they all tell about what is happening first. Unknown to anyone regional newspaper website, grandmother and brother at the door neighbor, your colleague from accounting - this is not the primary sources.

2. Search for photos and video from the scene

In noisy, resonance, scandalous and public events is always a media loop: in every pocket of modern man older than 16 years is a minimum of 1 telephone with photo camera. In the era of Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, new photos and videos are downloaded by hundreds of thousands of pieces per minute. If you are around all write about a state of emergency, but there are no photo, and video within the first 90 minutes after the "news" - the news, most likely a fake.

3. Use search in a foreign language (English, German, French)

Russian media often "buy" to "duck" from Twitter and English sites like fake news OnionNews. Checking the facts in the local and regional media often limping on both legs. Search Foreign influential publications in 3 minutes will give you an idea of ​​whether there is something extraordinary or an invasion of Martians - only the fruit of a successful lottery information.

4. Do not rely on random sites

If the "sensation" brings to the network conditional newspaper "Khakassia News" website which opened a month ago - is suspicious. Also, do not rush to cite various "news agencies", which until the breaking news nobody heard. Do not think of social networking as a single source of fair news by following links that lead to anyone not well-known web-based resources.

5. Check Ustream

From the crash site, rallies, protests, celebrations, festivals or police chase probably have at least one direct video broadcast. It can lead activists and bloggers, media professionals or just fans. Try to find a video broadcast.

6. Use the search hashtag

The most high-profile events can be tracked for trends on Twitter and Facebook by using hashtags. There you can see which generates the main stream of tweets and links to anything you Tags: bots or real users and serious news.

7. Do not watch broadcast television

Russian TV showed information on the Chelyabinsk meteorite hour after his fall, when it was swamped with all the YouTube clips from the scene with a dozen different locations; and the TV channel "Russia" believe that the past 10 days the meeting "a couple hundred" people in Kiev. The other day, RIA Novosti has become "Russia Today", and the first channel which shows the year instead of the news chronicle the life of a man with a large office. Try not to rely on the perception of reality through a television screen, even if for some misunderstanding in your home still has a cable TV package.

8. Always wait 15 minutes before you publish something

If you are associated with the work in the project content, a small online media or informational blog, do not forget about the power of endurance. No matter how tempting the first to put in the tape "sensation", double-check the facts, follow the previous 7 items from the list - and then still wait a few minutes. Even if everything is repeated, that "it is true and confirmed information" at the last moment may sound official denial. And it is always better to be the one who was the first to publish a refutation, than the last one to pick up the fake.