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we all have to become digital detectives
first is where is this information
coming from a lot of fake news sites try
to create a URL which is similar to a
URL of a publication that you might know
and you might be familiar with
ultimately the best way to understand
whether or not a site is trustworthy is
to actually read the content on the site
not just one article on it but other
articles and see do they meet the
standards of quality journalism
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and if it makes you really angry or
really sad or it makes you burst out
laughing that's actually a red flag to
you because it's kind of
short-circuiting your logic Center or
your ability to think I can look up the
author of that article I can see the
other things that they've ripped is
there an author of the article because
that's an important tip in helping us
figure out whether or not this piece of
information is actually real and
trustworthy if I read something that
says scientists say that chocolate cake
makes you smarter
well what scientists and what exactly
did they say one of the ways in which
rumor spreads is that a lot of people
keep repeating the same information but
nobody has verified it so journalists
depend on high quality sources so
experts how did you come across this
information how do you know that this
information is true someone takes that
photo that maybe three years ago and say
this is happening right now we saw a lot
of that during the recent hurricanes
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using a reverse image search on Google
can tell you where that image has
appeared before and who has shared it
that can give you important tips as to
whether or not the image is original
whether or not the image is in its
original context this is what we have to
do we try to drill down a little bit
deeper than that first tweet that tells
you that chocolate cake makes you
smarter
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