Posted on Jul 22, 2018
Curbing Fake News | Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
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"By and large, eradicating the fake news problem calls for a collective effort of individuals, governments, social media and content platforms, and organisations producing innovative technology solutions. Standalone technology solutions cannot be effective, unless and until they are integrated with social causes and awareness among the masses to solve such mounting problems. This is especially so in the Indian context, when a large online community of users, who are quite prone to opinion engineering, source their news from social media or messaging platforms without paying heed to the credibility or authenticity of the source. At the end of the day, human wisdom can make the real difference, technology solutions can at the most augment human ability to differentiate between fake and real at the first look. "
Curbing Fake News | Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
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Fake news certainly isn't anything new, it been around for a long time. Granted there is news the public wants and the communication is important. I have found even in Law Enforcement You would read a story about and incident where You were interviewed by the press, read the story and see no resemblance at all to their story and the facts they were given. It got to the point no one would talk to them and site how inaccurate their reporting was. Some got the message and reported facts and were able to get the story, those that were not credible no one would even talk to. The technology has advanced but without some media credibility on the part of the people involved in reporting actual news and not make up stories or exaggerate their reporting will be suspect and ignored as NOT news but an inaccurate story.
This isn't about protecting Your sources, it about actually reporting news, NOT opinions. They need to understand the difference between NEWS which is facts and EDITORIAL which is opinion. In either case they better think twice about drifting from the actual event to keeping the information accurate. Public records may be open but that doesn't mean anyone has to talk to members of the media especially if it is FAKE NEWS which today more often than not it is.
The amazing thing is if the media representatives themselves is honest they may actually get that big scoop and be the first to report with actual news. Many media sources that didn't follow that practice have failed or lost substantial amounts of readership, listeners or viewers because they were no longer considered a reliable reporter of news. Some of them have been bought to keep them from going under as the were operating in the red due to false of biased reporting or on major provider has lost 65 % of its viewers as it sold its own credibility down the road with false and misleading news. They fail to understand the people they may fool are not a majority, most people tend to see through this although some time more time for it to come home what is and is not false and trying to force inaccurate views on others. A lie or exaggeration is still a lie or exaggeration no matter how else a media source may try to pass it off as news.
This isn't about protecting Your sources, it about actually reporting news, NOT opinions. They need to understand the difference between NEWS which is facts and EDITORIAL which is opinion. In either case they better think twice about drifting from the actual event to keeping the information accurate. Public records may be open but that doesn't mean anyone has to talk to members of the media especially if it is FAKE NEWS which today more often than not it is.
The amazing thing is if the media representatives themselves is honest they may actually get that big scoop and be the first to report with actual news. Many media sources that didn't follow that practice have failed or lost substantial amounts of readership, listeners or viewers because they were no longer considered a reliable reporter of news. Some of them have been bought to keep them from going under as the were operating in the red due to false of biased reporting or on major provider has lost 65 % of its viewers as it sold its own credibility down the road with false and misleading news. They fail to understand the people they may fool are not a majority, most people tend to see through this although some time more time for it to come home what is and is not false and trying to force inaccurate views on others. A lie or exaggeration is still a lie or exaggeration no matter how else a media source may try to pass it off as news.
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LTC (Join to see)
On your second paragraph I would add that too often the media today does not report the news, they have become the news. Journalists have lost their objectivity.
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LTC Eric Udouj
The journalists have become the story too often. Posturing for the camera. The real area that shows impact is editors.. and the weaker the editors.. the better the chance of getting IW products into circulation or frenzy.
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The first step to stopping fake news is to stop calling all news you don't like fake. There are a lot of respectable journalists in the world, and almost all of them get smeared daily.
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LTC Eric Udouj
Disinformation has been around a long while. Respectable journalists do exist - as do news organizations that pride themselves on their standards of journalism. But so much else is not the story - its the perception. Its nothing new - we have done so much SCAM analysis on articles in CENTCOM AOR for decades now and seen the patterns of disinformation external to the US. Could easily run a scan of one false story and see the names of journalists who are writing with emotion on it and did not check the sources or facts of what they are writing on. The whole ICE Ban articles is a good example of disinformation. How many of the articles written stated ICE's role.. and how many of them instead painted those rolls such as separating children form their mothers (which was not an ICE duty or role). Look and see what other items were painted around ICE.. and were they taken from one article and applied to another? You can see patterns.... and you can see where emotions are used vs writing with journalistic view..
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COL John McClellan
The first step... is for everyone to behave more honestly, with integrity... with character. I agree with you Captain though - it's not OK to make up your own facts, and it's also not OK to make-up your won criticism not based on facts!! Fake News is basically the equivalent of the "shouting Fire! in a crowded movie house" admonition. If you are wrong and KNOW IT - shame on you! If you are wrong and don't know it... then wake up!!
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"The looming choice is whether it is always going to be a trade-off between freedom of expression and safety against fake content or whether the Chinese way is the right approach."
The above quote at the last of your posted article goes to my following arguement Sir.
IMO, the MSM is controlled by those that own it. A few individuals onboard a global agenda of Marxism, open borders and regions of economy. Their fake news is ment to mislead and divide. Even Faux News only tells half the truth.
We do it here also. No one wants to name the enemy. The enemy follows Muhammad's direct orders. Yet, some call it extreme. Well, it is extrem to us. But, not to Muhammad who has ordered all to worship the one true god of the Kaaba. Su'en.
It is strange the global agenda wants Marxism. From Karl Marx, a Jew. Yet, the world hates Israel and the Great Satan. The world system desires a Tyrant to control information. The world system desires the State to be a god. It hates G-d. See above quote.
The world system would rather lie, than tell the truth. The world system loves it's own Sir.
The above quote at the last of your posted article goes to my following arguement Sir.
IMO, the MSM is controlled by those that own it. A few individuals onboard a global agenda of Marxism, open borders and regions of economy. Their fake news is ment to mislead and divide. Even Faux News only tells half the truth.
We do it here also. No one wants to name the enemy. The enemy follows Muhammad's direct orders. Yet, some call it extreme. Well, it is extrem to us. But, not to Muhammad who has ordered all to worship the one true god of the Kaaba. Su'en.
It is strange the global agenda wants Marxism. From Karl Marx, a Jew. Yet, the world hates Israel and the Great Satan. The world system desires a Tyrant to control information. The world system desires the State to be a god. It hates G-d. See above quote.
The world system would rather lie, than tell the truth. The world system loves it's own Sir.
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LTC Eric Udouj
Read an article on FaceBook's attempt to fight fake news - and it ends up rolling on that same track your first paragraph is looking at Mark. Control of perceptions and power..
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LTC Eric Udouj
We are not well set up to fight it here... nor overseas. Stalin organ of stovepipes is not too effective..
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Cpl Mark A. Morris
I have an idea Sir.
Use known websites that are approved by the military to carry adds. Those adds lead to information to counter fake news.
It would require a much smaller budget than going head to head with billion dollar news groups Sir.
Use known websites that are approved by the military to carry adds. Those adds lead to information to counter fake news.
It would require a much smaller budget than going head to head with billion dollar news groups Sir.
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