Crowdsourcing truth and how journalists can avoid spreading misinformation

This is a very interesting time for our country and for social media as now everything that gets posted on any form of social media is breaking news. People do not take the time to evaluate what they are reading and fact check the articles or posts they receive the information from. I think people need to be smarter about what they post and repost as certain people can become anxious over false information. Also, people can take something as serious as this and blow it off. I think we as consumers need to take any information we receive, not from a reliable verified source, with a grain of salt as we do not really know the validity of the post. If we do not know something is true we should not repost it. If we repost things we do not have the support of we are contributing to the problem of the spread of fake news. I also liked how the article mentioned the dates of articles and to be mindful of when something was posted in reference to when you are reading it. In something as serious as this pandemic information is growing and spreading so quickly that information from a week ago could easily not be applicable to right now. I found the section referring to news that is framed as something other than what the article is actually trying to say. I have been encouraged to not just look at headings after reading this as they can be misleading. I need to take my time when looking at information, especially through social media, and make sure everything is what it appears to be.

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