Hoaxes whatsapp

 

Décodeurs shared a few tips to avoid believing and sharing misinformation in a crisis.

•         Information  published by a stranger is normaly false.
•          Even the well-known bublications could be wrong, so is better to wait for more media pubished the same.
•          The photos is never evidence.
•          A basic principle is to compareis to wait if several reliable media outlets provide the same information.

a.Why is so hard to avoid misinformation on Whatsapp?

Groups are limited to 256 people, making it hard for fact-checkers to see when and where fake news goes viral, and all messages are automatically encrypted. Those problems are compounded by the fact that there’s currently no analytics system that journalists can use to monitor activity on the platform.

 

b.How some fact-checking organizations try to combat this misinformation?

WhatsApp was designed to keep people’s information secure and private, so no one is able to access the contents of people’s messages and by promoting digital literacy on the platform, an initiative that Facebook is helping with.

 

c.Write an example of fakes news

selection in Germany.

Spam and Hoaxes

 

  What spam and hoaxes are?

     spam:unsolicited junk e-mai.

     hoaxes:blatantly false e-mail intended to alarm others, spread urban myths, or to just plain       spread like wildfire no matter the content.

  What is the target of the hoaxes?

     The target of the hoaxes is to be redirected to thousand of persons in order to get the e-           mail addresses for futures actions of spams or phising.

   How can we fight against hoaxes?

   Identify them and stop them from forwoarding to other systems

   I recommend this web page: 

     snoppes (Snopes.com  )

   Here you have two examples of hoaxes: 

     Walt Disney is frozen.(false)

      Bill Gates told George Magazine that an ‘Over-Populated Planet’ would fall to a ‘Lung-

      Attacking Virus’(false)

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