Haven't you googled it yet? Why not?! Aren't you terrified? What are your emotions? Do you care? How could you not know it yet?!
You don't have to answer - you've just been clickbaited and then fakenewsed.
Your click, your attention, a piece of your mind, fragment of your life was SOLD.
That's all what mattered, certainly it was not your dignity.
Sorry, I did not want to offend you, but Facebook treats you like this every day, so I thought that you've already adjusted.
Do you remain passive and scroll down or maybe take some actions? How do you react in such situations? But it is not just Facebook.
Every social media platform gathers data about their users and uses it to get to know the best suited advertisements, that are most likely to get clicked on.
It means that you like it. You clicked, didn't you?
It means that you like it. You clicked, didn't you?
We live in an Information Age. Lots of us have easy access to potential knowledge. We're just surrounded by the data and it still grows. Technological revolution has a big impact on our every day life.
"The internet is changing the way we work, spend our leisure time and communicate with one another.
It is estimated that the number of internet users worldwide reached 3.4 billion in 2016."
Julia Murphy and Max Roser (2018) - "Internet". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/internet' [Online Resource]
It's rather big community.
"The internet is the largest community in history as big as the global population in 1960.
It crosses every border and culture. And enough people are connected that the internet has become a planetary infrastructure for communications and collaboration.
The tools and knowledge of one nation now belong to all nations."
Dex Torricke-Barton (2015) - "How the internet is uniting the world". Published online at medium.com. Retrieved from: 'https://medium.com/@dextbarton/how-the-internet-is-uniting-the-world-36408b457692' [Online Resource]And that's beautiful! We can (still) share our ideas and opinions freely, communicate freely.
Do you think that the Earth is flat? You will find your proofs - be sure not to check proofs of the opposite camp - they will try to deceive you.
You'll always find a group that confirms your views.
Internet is not an isolated example - there are also the most popular alternatives like press, tv, radio...
I am sure that you will find something for yourself, but will it bring any value?
Journalists, creating reality and ready to serve easy selling pulp, are waiting for your attention.
Do you care that school bus full of children crashed somewhere in the globe? Should you care, since it doesn't make any influence on your life?
If you do, why do you focus on it - there are lots of more important problems in our world. Shame on you.
Journalists, creating reality and ready to serve easy selling pulp, are waiting for your attention.
Do you care that school bus full of children crashed somewhere in the globe? Should you care, since it doesn't make any influence on your life?
If you do, why do you focus on it - there are lots of more important problems in our world. Shame on you.
It's really tiresome - full time playing on your feelings or negative emotions like fear, anger. I sold my TV set.
There are also fake news, maybe you have heard:
A new dimension of propaganda which has always existed, but lately gaining strength due to high access to information.
Can you still trust news?
This all may lead to situation when you are not interested in news at all.
In long-time perspective it can lead to a dangerous situation, when nobody has access to the truth - governments may use it against us.
Recently I've chosen this way. I am not interested in news at all and I am angry at myself, when I read some, being a victim of a clickbait.
Maybe I am wrong. What do you think?
I really want to know your opinion regarding questions asked below:
How do you protect yourself against clickbait and fakenews, but still have knowledge about the world you live in? How do you recognize absolute truth?
Do you think, that you know when you're manipulated? Is there any chance to take such possibility out of equation?
Do you track news from your country or world? Or maybe you stopped to do so, because you don't trust anyone?
What if that was the purpose?
What will happen when all of us stop reacting on politicians' actions? Isn't it happening in middle class now?
I wouldn't be paranoid. Fake news have been and will be but it's pretty easy to catch them. In general, all media are a bit manipulative but we should be able to find the best sources. The best solution is to use several sources and compare facts I don't see a big conspiracy in this, only human stupidity.
ReplyDeleteYes, but it takes a lot of time and there's possibility that you reach only those manipulative ones, I wouldn't really call it easy, average citizen may not be capable of doing so
DeleteFinding the truth in media in recent times is really hard but as always there are people that care about the truth. You just need th fin them although it's hard in such a ocean of sources of information.
ReplyDeleteAnd even if you find that person or page that has high standards and you veryfy it very carefully you never will be 100% sure that everything they say is true.
I think that the most obvious method to find the truth or at least expose a lie is to always check many sources of different political camps. But who has time and energy to do something like that..
I don't track the news really. From time to time I will read some information from independent sources but that's about it.
I agree with you, from my perspective also it's best to have some trusted sources, but again still stay alert
DeleteI had possibility to read information in media and check what the person mentioned in the text really said. I did it three times last month and in all texts the meaning of words were so much changed, that had nothing to do with original. I agree with Franciszek, than we can find people, for whom truth is important, but not in mainstream. Those are rather people, who work on their own and are not dependent on mass media. However the way how media manipulating is not only how they show information, but also what news they chose and which issues are left unsaid.
ReplyDeleteYeah, perspective.. it can reverse the message. Some journalists cleverly play with it and I totally agree - mainstream is sold market, mainly managed by the ruling parties and fat cats.
DeleteI always try to get information from various source (both from Polish and foreign ones). I do my best to listen to the people with different views/beliefs - e.g. by reading Gazeta Wyborcza and then Rzeczpospolita and even wPolityce, by watching TVN24 and Polsat - (I prefer Polsat to TVP1, I think journalists of this station at least pretend not to be in favour of any of the political parties, in most cases succesfully) - thanks to this approach I am always able to filter out the most valuable information and develop rational opinions. It is sometimes very difficult to tell fakenews from the truth - that is why it is worth reading a lot/broadening knowledge of the world - to be able to more efficiently recognize true/valuable information. Nowadays, fake news can have very significant influence on people's decisions - based on false information, they for instance can decide on whom to vote during election (in USA, there is ongoing investigation of the involvement of Russia in the last presidential election - the citizens of this country are accused of manipulation by fake news)
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be so sure about the all you listed, but maybe I am too sensitive, it is a sensitive subject. Funny story is that true as well as fake news may be called fake. Regarding USA's presidential election, it is also interesting because both Clinton and Trump used fakenews as a weapon against each other.
DeleteMost of clickbaits are really hard to trace. I literally stopped reading all these news from various portals, especially polish media which are actually more focused on fighting each other than providing reliable information to our nation. There's no other protection from clickbaits than just simply read them twice and use your own brain to analyse whether something is true or an obvious bait. It's not always easy to recognize a fake news, I've found myself in a position where I was manipulated by some fake informations inflowing from different sources. It was horrible to find out that it was all a big lie and turning point of my view on such stuff. I always try to leave a margin of falsehood that might be stored in a news I read. If that was someone's purpose for me to stop reading news I can live with that. I am not the kind of person who is really taking care of what's going on in his country so I don't follow politicians moves. I've voted on someone who I trust and I just hope he's doing his job. Instead I focus on myself and my personal development.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree, it really feels bad when you realize that you're deceived, even worse when someone got hurt by this.
DeleteI protect myself against all that trash information by having filter on news. I felt manipulated with too many important actions every day. They tried to make anything sound so important and urgent.
ReplyDeleteI still trust news but with very limited amount of websites. I read the RSS channels mostly, even not every day.
I don't care about clickbait information that is happening. Just try to not visit those websites. I highly recommend to filter the information by yourself or at least check with different websites that that information is true.
Politicans actions should be always visible. After all we voted for those people.
Such filters I haven't tried yet, I will try them for sure, thank you!
DeleteI think that number of fake news is a lot bigger than it was, but checking if it's a fake news is also a lot simpler, decade ago thing that you read on newspapers or heard in TV was almost impossible to check, as there were no other sources that you could check really fast. Now it takes around two minutes to compare it to other sources, so always when I read something especially if it's political I check original source and others to check if it's true. It's boring and takes a lot of time, but that's how I avoid being manipulated.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it is a good idea for creating a startup? Google add-on to indicate fake news, using machine learning and some other fancy toys! It takes so much time to compare all of this.
DeleteGo for it! I'm first customer ;P
DeleteSomeone said that information noise is one of the most powerful weapons of our time. To be honest I'm trying to get rid of any political aspect from my main news sources. I used to read them but whatever it was about it always just better or worse developed kind of a political game. So basically I didn't watch TV, I've only listen to the radio when I'm driving a car and even then I'm mostly skipping news, I've removed all further friends on facebook that were posting bunch of crap news all the time. On my daily routine I've reading KiKŚ's/Poinformowani page on facebook. It's a bunch of people under editor in chef Łukasz Bok that bring all of the most important news from the entire world. They're always checking their news in multiples sources and avoid political topics- only if it's something really important or have got global impact.
ReplyDeleteAccording to your last question it's really hard part because "not to worry is a privilege" but on the other hand amount of news is so huge that it's unhealthy to worry about them all. I guess it's one of the reason of such avalanche of information to people stop caring about them at all. Then it's much easier to control us. In my opinion it's really irresponsible to don't care about the world at all because if everyone of us will think that someone else will take care- then anyone will.
Yes, I also heard it, that there is prediction, that in future access to knowledge will be limited, if information noise grows. I totally get your point! Same here, I deleted crappy fb friends or limited their access to my wall. It may be comfortable not to worry about all the current problems, but when something goes wrong, responsibility is on us, because we also allowed for it. I unfortunately can not throw away this thought out of my mind, I still feel responsible.
DeleteInternet is a curious place.
ReplyDeleteAs I remember from my early days, when Kazaa was one of the coolest ways to go to thanks to your ISP gratitude, still more of its downloaded content traveled throught CDs given to those who couldn't afford aforementioned gratidute.
-->CLICK IT<-- , FULL FREE FANTASTIC!1!, THE ORIGINAL ONE , !!!THATSWHATU LOKING4!!!
As a receiver of of CDs which files sound like this, i've learned my lesson of internet communication (resulting in totally unusable brick, made of my computer parts and data).
Nowadays, serious web news sites in, so called "Silly Season", don't hesitate to use over-emotionally characterized titles in news that... aren't so emotional at all.
Of course, internet is fast, news are moving around the world faster then in a blink of an eye, we have access to other valuable voices and guesses in topic.
But i don't recall, that some serious warzone journalist would "shout" to me by title of his report.
And i still don't know why.
Have a wonderful christmas y'all!
ReplyDeleteWith more information sources there will be more disinformation floating around. Especially when every single person can become a source of a news that can reach masses. And masses cannot be reason with. That's why they are so dangerous.
ReplyDeleteCurrently there are no reliable information sources, because they are all created by man. Maybe, just maybe, an AI based global system could gather only facts and provide them in form of news to everyone interested in near future? One is certain people = agendas.
By the way I love the point about the irrelevance of information.
Well, these are plenty of questions :P
ReplyDeleteBeginning from the first one – I cannot trust news. I dissapointed on journalism in present days and I strongly lean on my reason, not on somebody else’s opinions. I still remember how coleagues from my previous university deceived TVN24 television. One guy was pretending he is a polish living in USA and he is voting on Obama and the TV station presented it as a true, while this guy was sitting in his flat in Warsaw and was talking through the Skype.
I agree with you. I think we cannot allow ourselves to loose precious time on fake news which aim only to raise our emotions, not to inform us about anything important.
Well, I have problems with being informed nowadays. It is some compromise we must to deal with. We cannot know absolute truth unfortunately.
I think I can recognize when I am manipulated quite well, but sometimes I am being cought up. I don’t know if there exist any fair journalism any more. As you assumed I stopped to track news because of poor quality of them and lack of truth.
I think indifference and passivity aren’t any solution to any problems. People should learn on their own, look for academic researches and so on. But obviously not many people have time for that, as they focus on their own everyday duties. So it is really bad situation :/
How do you protect yourself against clickbait and fakenews, but still have knowledge about the world you live in? How do you recognize absolute truth?
ReplyDeleteWell, the problem is that you can't really protect yourself, you just have to quit browsing the news. I think it's hard to reckon the truth. Sometimes there are some news about politics or some calssified stuff that noone has acces to it, so you can't check it.
Do you think, that you know when you're manipulated? Is there any chance to take such possibility out of equation?
Sometimes when I see headers like font 72 and some bad looking text I just pass it and keep scrolling :)
Do you track news from your country or world? Or maybe you stopped to do so, because you don't trust anyone?
Sometimes I do, but mostly I try to use quality sources, so I won't be cheated on. But of course there are also some exceptions even in this situation, so you can't be sure.
What if that was the purpose?
Smells like schizophrenia :D
What will happen when all of us stop reacting on politicians' actions? Isn't it happening in middle class now?
One time Danzel Washington said: "When you read the news, you are misinformed, when you don't you are uninformed". There is no good way, that's why academic knowledge is importnat because when you have knowledge you can analyze the information you acquired.