How do you know what you are reading is actually true?
This is a fascinating topic in my honest opinion. How do we know what we see on our Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, other social medias are actually giving us factual information not fake news. What is our personal algorithm telling us? Is the algorithm bias in any ways? How do we know the information we are gathering is factually correct.
I remember when I was completing my first degree, we were always told to use websites that end in .org, .gov, .edu were to be trusted. According to a google search and the AI add on that came with the search, websites that end with .org are associated with organizations, such as non profit and are a good choice for research. Websites ending with .gov are websites created by the federal government and should have factual information, and website, and lastly websites ending with .edu are websites for educational institutions. These would be a more trustworthy source then other options.
on various social media’s defending the party of their choosing. I noticed after a period of time my timeline became very pro one side and not the other. I found this very interesting, furthermore, I was pro NDP during the provincial election while speaking out on twitter. The interesting part was my algorithm was pro Republican and pro Trump. I have no idea why it was pro liberal in Canada and pro Republican in the United States.
Back to the original topic of fake news and fact checking. I did notice there were a lot of twitter verse (refuse to call it X, similar to how Mosaic stadium will always be Taylor Field and the Brandt center will always be the Agri dome) if you did not post information with evidence or without fact checking you will be called out. I find it very difficult with AI and all the different social medias what is truth and what is false.