It can be difficult to tell what is true and what is fake today, particularly online or through social media. Before we accept something as true, or send it to friends, we should consider the following:
- Where did it come from?
- Who wrote it?
- How do they benefit?
- How does the author know this information?
- How can it be disproven?
Reading Recommendations:
Ammerman, William. The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2019.
Pariser, Eli. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You. London: Penguin books, 2012.
Rid, Thomas. Active Measures: the Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Singer, Peter Warren, and Emerson T.. Brooking. LikeWar: the Weaponization of Social Media. Boston: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Watts, Clint. Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News. New York, NY: Harper, 2019.
