My Father-in-Law's brother excitedly showed me this video about an amazing news story where a dolphin saved a dog from sharks. Here's the video he showed me:
He really believed this was from a new story. I said "how was this filmed, how did they get this angle, this is from some movie?" but he was adamant.
Five minutes searching turned up this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_and_Roxanne
So its from some crappy 1997 telemovie and has been banging around YT for years as some supposed evidence of dolphins having empathy or something. Tell me how does an adult watch that clip and conclude its a real news story?
How fake news works
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Re: How fake news works
Despite people having all the world's information in their pockets these days, people are somehow getting stupider. Anti vaxxers, flat earthers etc
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This is why i deleted Facebook.
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The world is sadly getting dumber..
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We have access to all the information but we don't have the critical thinking skills to parse it. It's how we've ended up with Brexit and Trump, and how ridiculous movements as mentioned above inexplicably become a debate, instead of being dismissed outright for being bloody stupid.
Having grown up and worked with the internet, I think I'm relatively good at filtering good information from bad but some of the stuff that people accept without blinking is shocking. The hardest part is changing somebody's mind, as it's not a question of presenting facts because they'll go and find a website where somebody has written a load of opposing facts. It doesn't matter that they're demonstrably bullshit. If somebody has written it and it's on the internet, somebody will consider that a fact.
Here's another example:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/how ... .qfp37VZMl
The incorrect story was shared a billion times, the correction passes by like a fart in the wind.
That old quote by Einstein has never been more true:
Only now it's all the way round the world.Einstein wrote:A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its pants on