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.
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