What I listened to / read
I have found a very remarkable topic "How fake news make the real harm". It's really interest me because it's a one of our world's problem. Everyone use social media to contract friends and families , we're also share news or stories but we've no suspecting or doubt about its truth.
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What it says
Stephanie Busari met one of the Chibok kidnapped girls who escaped from Boko Haram terrorists successfully. While the official government of Nigeria and influential persons told her that it's hoax crime .Theses leaded to confusing and delaying efforts to rescue the kidnapped girls. Stephanie try to explain our social role and responsibilities to verify before sharing information.
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My response
We let the influence of social media impact to our life , but we have never realized the effect of it. Last week , I saw a video on Youtube. This video showed me how people judged others. The story is about the old rich lady who own the market. She has 2 bodyguards and they always wear in black. This make people think she's heartless and cruel. Even though we don't know the truth , we decide from her outside .
The kidnapped girls was ignored from their government and some who believe that it's a hoax.
Even if Boko Haram sent the girls' clip ,many people think it's not real. It make me feel disappointed . When we go on our Twitter , Facebook or others social media , we have to ask ourselves "Is it true? " and "What benefit 'll they get from that ? " . I strongly agree with Stephanie's opinion because this can stop cyberbullying.
There're some basic suggestion to self-check before sharing news or information . Firstly, you have to read the domain and URL and make sure that's believable . Next , Look at the comment , Most of Stories's headline often will be written with the intention of being misleading . But if a lot of comments call out the article for being fake , it probably. Lastly, You have to check who said them. Then you can verify a quick Google searching to make sure that the author is creditable.
I like Fern's reminder about the need to be sceptical. I sometimes try to point out gently to my near relatives that some bit of rubbish they have forwarded from Facebook is almost certainly false - one of my sisters used to be in the habit of forwarding perfectly unsubstantiated police warnings about murderous criminals and the like. Thankfully, she now forwards only useful things like food reports from places she has verified.
ReplyDeleteFern's blog also reminded me of the Buddha's very wise teachings in his Sermon to the Kalamas (กาลามสูตร), which I'm sure most of you already know.
I absolutely agree with both of you, and I ado think that it is the time to make a clearer understand between the things which we can make it fake or do not for prevention the tragedy like this occurrence.
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