How to distinguish a phishing web news
A Life / / December 19, 2019
CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour in an interview discussed at TED problem feykovye news and told why it is necessary to learn to distinguish real facts from fabricated.
Christiane Amanpour
The reporter, presenter on CNN channel.
What is phishing web news
A good example - the debate about climate change. 99.9% of the data on this phenomenon confirmed by science, but they are still almost equal to discuss with the statements of those who deny climate change. The concept feykovye news took shape only in the last few years. And it's not just loud terms that you can throw right and left. When we can not distinguish truth from fiction, we can not solve the accumulated problems. And this is really disturbing.
There are situations that simply can not be neutral, otherwise you become an accomplice. But objectivity is particularly important for journalists. But not everyone knows that such objectivity. Many take for an objective assessment of the belief in the same culpability of all parties to the conflict. In fact, to be objective - it means to speak to all parties and to listen to their equally impartially, but not recognize them morally or practically equal.
If you do not understand what is true and what is fiction in a situation of gross violations of international law and human rights, we become accomplices.
Than they are dangerous
When the Internet started to develop, everyone thought that he was at times to increase access to knowledge and help fight prejudice, that the increase in channels information ensure transparency and accuracy of the data. In fact, according to Amanpour, it happened the other way around. With the huge amount of news platforms and social networks, people were closed, each in his "tunnel." They focus only on a narrow area of interest and do not see the overall picture.
The traditional media still maintain certain standards. Stories are validated, doubtful published. But now for the publication and distribution of news is often only attract the reader's attention. Naturally, there is more than ever a lot of false information. For example, during the presidential elections in the United States purposefully created feykovye news sites affecting public opinion.
How to protect yourself
- Be careful with information sources.
- Responsible approach to what news you read, listen and watch.
- As much as many sources of information you may viewed, always based primarily on a few proven publications that can be trusted.
Christiane AmanpourToday our problems are so great that if you do not act all together as citizens of the world who value the truth and guided by scientific data and facts, we simply come to a catastrophe.