- I mean, there's a reason that cheese tastes like plastic, right?
- Dayumn. Dayumn!!
IT WON'T EVEN BURN!
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- (FBE) You're about to watch a viral video
that has been controversial as some of the things inside
of it have turned out to not be fully accurate.
- Oh! Okay. Well, I mean, accuracy is key on the internet.
I think we all know that.
- (FBE) It's an example of a recent social media problem
of people sometimes believing videos without doing their own research.
- Yeah, big problem. - That's actually been
really rampant lately, where someone will just
make up a story and then people-- it'll go insanely viral,
and then someone will be like, "Oh yeah, I faked that."
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- Oh! I did see this one. Okay. Because I was with Eric,
and I definitely was like, "Can you believe this?!"
- Oh, is this the all the things wrong with food?
Tori showed me this video, and I was like, "That can't be real."
- I mean, there's a reason that cheese tastes like plastic, right?
- It can't be real. Why would they put [bleep] plastic?
I feel like plastic would be just as expensive as rice.
Rice is really cheap to make. - Pretty sure it's harder
to make plastic than to grow rice!
- Ew, no! Baby food?
- Oh, gross. What's in there?
- How does a magnet even attract rocks?
- God, these infograph videos all over the internet
can be full of just anything that anyone wants to put.
And if you have the right cuts, it's like, "Oh, it looks official."
All right. What is this? Juicy!
- Oh! Oh! Oh, that-- oh, no!
- What? What's going on?
- Is that true?! (chuckles) How true is that?
A meat manufacturer didn't do that. You did that for this video.
That's disgusting, and a waste of a good steak.
- Don't ruin ice cream. - On ice cream?
"Ice cream that bubbles contains washing powder
for shine and lightness."
- Milk.
Seaweed, 'cause everyone just has seaweed handy.
"If there's rice water in milk, seaweed will turn it blue."
That's baloney.
- I don't even know what rice water is.
Is that not supposed to be in milk?
- (sighs) Come on now.
- Sweet potato. Who came up with any of this?
- I've never once been eating a sweet potato
and been like, "Something's wrong here."
- You colored it.
I can't say that I would believe that.
- Not coffee!! - The word "additives"
is such a buzzword. That could mean literally anything.
It's just added.
- Don't know if I completely believe that, 'cause salt in hot water
is going to look like that. - All of this is just so lame.
I think I stopped this video after the rock one,
where I was like, "This is dumb. This is stupid."
- All right, well that's just heroin.
- (amused) Only drug addicts put spoons over flames.
But it's for science, you know?
- (gasps) No.
There's water in my things?! Well, that can't be good for you.
- (chuckles) Guys, I'm just gonna stop eating everything,
and I'm just gonna live on air. - Did they know going into
making this video that this was fake, and they wanted the virality of it?
Or did they really think they were doing something here?
- It almost looks like 5-Minute Crafts
but for food myths. The problem with that
is that it just gives you a lot of images to react to,
but not enough time to process what is happening.
- I understand the way it was presented,
because that is that is very me memeable,
that's very Instagram. You wanna give as much information
as quickly as possible. The first thing that I would do
is hit whatever info section of whatever social media platform
I'm on and be like, "Where are your sources?"
- (FBE) So, as this video was blowing up on Facebook,
people started pointing out that the information
wasn't entirely factual. - Right. Didn't feel all that factual.
- (FBE) Major news organizations and fact-checking sites
like snopes.com have pointed out
that even though the video seems to present things as facts,
it was not the full story. - Okay, I can easily see that.
- (FBE) So, we're actually gonna have you try a few of these things
for yourself and then we'll discuss the stories behind these claims.
- Okay, I'm excited and scared.
- (FBE) First up, we're gonna have you test the first claim
made in the video you just watched that processed cheese with chemicals
is difficult to melt compared to natural cheese.
- Oh! This is the one I wanted to try anyway.
- (FBE) So, we have processed cheese
and a lighter here for ya. - Thank you.
- (FBE) So, go ahead and give it a shot.
- Cheese is my favorite food and ingredient, and I would
be horrified if it was ruined for me.
- Let's see. (flame crackling softly)
I mean, yeah, that's got a a quick char to it.
- Dayumn!! IT WON'T EVEN BURN!
That is some nasty-- thi-- (sighs)
- Light it up, boys.
It's definitely not melting. - Do you smell that?!
- (FBE) What does it smell like? - It smells like plastic!
- (FBE) Now, we also have some natural cheese for you,
so you can go ahead and-- - Please burn right, natural cheese!
- All right. I mean, this wasn't one of the ones
that bugged me. - Will it melt?
Oh, no. Well, that part broke.
- (Faith) Fresh off the grill. That's what I'm talking about.
- (FBE) So, does it seem more natural?
- Yes! - (Brian) Yes, it's accurate.
Or at least as accurate as anyone who watched the video
would say it is. - (FBE) According to snopes.com,
this one does work, but not in the exact way
that the video claimed. But either way,
seeing how different processed versus natural food can be,
does that make you think differently about your food?
- YES! I grew up on this cheese!
- When it comes to the food that I get or eat,
I look at what's in it.
- I don't judge healthiness on meltability.
- (FBE) I think that that's a fair statement. (chuckles)
So next, we're gonna have you test the claim that watered-down honey
will extinguish a wick, but pure honey will
keep the flame lit. - Interesting.
- (FBE) So first, you're gonna try it with honey that doesn't contain
any water, which is just that pure honey in the bottle.
- Pure honey. Honey, honey.
- (Tori) Right on that baby. Okay.
- Now... - (FBE) Now light it on fire.
- Fire. - (Tori) And burn. And burn.
And burn. (gasps) Oh!
Okay, so pure honey still allows for a wick to be lit.
- Boom. Well, that's funny. The honey didn't put it out.
- It's burning normally. - (FBE) We couldn't find any honey
with water in it. And after some research,
we found that it seems, in the US at least,
it's very rare to find honey made that way at all,
so we diluted it ourselves, and we'll see how it goes.
- Oh! Okay. - The watered-down honey
is already on the plate, so I'm just gonna give it
a little flipski. Boom.
- If it has real water in it, it probably will not burn,
'cause that makes sense. - Round two.
Oh, it's kind of poppin'. - It's still lit.
I don't understand.
Oh, never mind. It's going out.
Yeah, it's out. Okay, so they were right.
- It's been doused with the watered-down honey.
I mean, it's still lit, so I don't even know what to say.
- (FBE) Is it gonna stay lit? - Oh.
Oh, it went out! Ohhh.
- (FBE) So, this one, experts have said, is mostly true.
However, as I mentioned, you can't really find honey
made this way in a lot of places, since the primary way honey
is altered in the US, for example, is actually by being mixed
with corn syrup or cane sugar, not by being diluted with water.
- Huh. - (FBE) So, it may be true,
but it's rare to find depending on where you live.
- Okay. Interesting. - If anything, that's worse to me
than water is that you're just putting more corn syrup
in your honey, 'cause that's actually bad for you!
- There are companies that use additives to to change up
what you think you're getting. It's kind of not cool,
but it's literally every single thing you have in your life.
- (FBE) Lastly, you're gonna test the video's claim that ice cream
that bubbles when you squeeze lemon on it contains washing powder
for shine and lightness. - Oh, gosh.
- (FBE) So, we have a popular brand of ice cream and a lemon,
and you're gonna test and see if the typical ice cream actually
has washing powder in it. - I'm gonna ruin
the beautiful ice cream I wanna eat. - So, if it bubbles,
it has the washing powder? All right, let's see.
Get some bubbly ice cream. Drop a seed in there for fun.
- All right, here we go. Lemon ice cream.
This should be the chemical reaction. - Okay, it is not bubbling.
- I don't see a single bubble in there.
- I see lemon on top of ice cream. No bubbles, so I guess
this is real ice cream. - I feel like they had to put
some type of chemical on the ice cream
that reacts with lemon to make it bubble.
- (FBE) According to Snopes, this one is false.
There were no reports in the FDA database
of washing powder being added to ice cream
or any food or beverage for that matter in the US
from 2004 to 2018. - Yeah. Before 2004?
We don't know. I don't understand how anyone
would ever think they would put washing powder in something
for you to eat. - People stop eating meat
or stop eating rice based on a video like this.
And then they'll spread misinformation to their friends, and then it just
basically becomes a common fact even though it's a lie.
- Without putting any context or any science, all it is
is just kind of-- it's being viral just to be scary
and just to be viral.
- (FBE) So, Facebook does now have a fact-checking process,
where on certain videos like this one, users might have seen a couple
of links letting them know that the content is a mix
of fact and fiction. - I've never seen that.
If you're clicking on a link on Facebook, you're not gonna go
read the description. - (FBE) However, after the controversy,
the company who made this video took it down,
apparently to make corrections. - That means they got caught.
- I wonder if they-- when they put it out there
that they thought, "This is gonna be big,"
or they did it on purpose to cause controversies.
- (FBE) Fact-checking of misinformation is a big topic
of discussion right now when it comes to social media,
so no judgment here, but we do want to know,
have you ever watched a video, seen a tweet
or read an article that you just kind of believed
without doing further research? - I think we all do.
Sometimes, we just read headlines. We just kind of believe it
without asking. - I do it all the time,
especially stuff on Twitter. Over 3,000 retweets on Twitter,
I feel like that's a legit source,
because it's gone through so many people.
- It's usually political stuff, content that I don't really--
I'm like, "That's terrible!" And I have a knee-jerk reaction,
where I'm like, "Screw them! No, it can't be!"
I don't fact check it, so that's on me.
- I'm not really a type of person that does that.
If something comes out, and it seems far-fetched,
not that it couldn't happen, but it's far-fetched,
I'll wait a couple of days. - Your brain gets very exhausted
just trying to keep up what actually is the truth,
and you take that and multiply it by a thousand things
that we see a day, it's very, very hard to be vigilant.
- (FBE) When it comes to content being posted,
do you think that it's the platform's responsibility
to regulate this or, in your opinion, is it a user's responsibility
to do their own research when it comes to these types of things?
- I think it should be the user's responsibility.
It's literally just like, don't be a dumbass.
- Totally the users. The platform is just the platform.
The platform is there for you to use. - If it's something specifically
that you are going to believe, and it's going to affect the way
that you live, you should definitely
do some more research. - It is a combination
of the platform doing something
to at least parse through the information
and then the user's ability to look at the information presented
and make their own judgments.
- In the beginning, users didn't have any responsibilities,
'cause it was all just fun of like, "Let's say whatever we want."
But now, social media has become this legitimate platform,
and I think that's when you have more responsibility of like,
"You're a brand. Try not to spread false information."
- Everyone wants it both ways. We get mad at the platform,
because we want free speech. And the platform is like,
"We can't regulate, 'cause you guys got free speech."
So, it's up to the content creator, which is really bad,
'cause there's always gonna be [bleep] people.
- There's a lot of fake crap out there.
And so, it's your job as a person in the world
to cut through it and really question things
and hold the platforms responsible, 'cause those, you know, ideas
that especially stoke the flames of hatred and violence,
we all collectively are responsible.
- (FBE) So finally, obviously content will continue
to be made, some for entertainment and not always with ill intention,
and maybe these content creators don't even realize their errors.
- I don't know what to think. They did research some of this,
and then found the true food facts, and they decided to play on that.
But then they realized they weren't gonna have
long enough of a video, so they were like,
"All right, we gotta fill it with some other things
that'll really freak everyone out!"
- (FBE) Finally, after watching this video today,
talking more about it, what do you think should be done
about the issue of spreading misinformation
on social media?
- In a nutshell, I would say before you're gonna
put a factual video out, have your sources.
- Oh, google it real fast. It only takes a little bit more time
out of your day to figure out whether or not these things
are true or false. - Fake news, as it were,
it's like, nobody knows what to believe anymore.
We don't know who to trust anymore. To spread that kind of falsehood
in such an easy and chipper and this-all-looks-true way
is, I think, a massive problem in our world today.
"Sorry" is a great word. It's okay to screw up,
And then for the people that are intentionally
spreading misinformation, know that those people are out there.
Do your homework. - There should be
just more repercussions for a platform
if they're gonna put out false information,
whether it's not anything criminal or punishment-wise,
but just on their own reputation, it should be
a little bit more detrimental. - We need more classes and systems
and structures in place, where you can kind of know
when you're being [bleep] more. We can have a class
in high school of, like, "Don't trust strangers."
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