Fake news seems to be everywhere these days, so how do you tell when something is fake? And is it possible to avoid it to begin with? That’s the subject today. Some of the tools we talked about in this episide: Web of trust https://www.mywot.com/ This is Fake https://www.thisisfake.org/ B.S. Detector http://bsdetector.tech/ And here’s the Onion article we mentioned from way back in 2000 which linked Harry Potter to Satanism: http://www.theonion.com/article/harry-potter-books-spark-rise-in-satanism-among-ch-2413 We also talked about the recent Techwalla article on fake news:
Fake news seems to be everywhere these days, so how do you tell when something is fake? And is it possible to avoid it to begin with? That's the subject today.
Some of the tools we talked about in this episide:
Web of trust
https://www.mywot.com/
This is Fake
https://www.thisisfake.org/
B.S. Detector
http://bsdetector.tech/
And here's the Onion article we mentioned from way back in 2000 which linked Harry Potter to Satanism:
http://www.theonion.com/article/harry-potter-books-spark-rise-in-satanism-among-ch-2413
We also talked about the recent Techwalla article on fake news:
https://www.techwalla.com/40811/how-to-tell-when-youre-reading-fake-news-and-what-to-do-about-it
Fake news seems to be everywhere these days, so how do you tell when something is fake? And is it possible to avoid it to begin with? That's the subject today.
Some of the tools we talked about in this episide:
Web of trust
This is Fake
B.S. Detector
And here's the Onion article we mentioned from way back in 2000 which linked Harry Potter to Satanism:
http://www.theonion.com/article/harry-potter-books-spark-rise-in-satanism-among-ch-2413
We also talked about the recent Techwalla article on fake news:
https://www.techwalla.com/40811/how-to-tell-when-youre-reading-fake-news-and-what-to-do-about-it