{"id":79,"date":"2018-09-05T22:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T05:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/?p=79"},"modified":"2018-09-09T19:15:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T02:15:57","slug":"the-art-of-crap-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/2018\/09\/the-art-of-crap-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Crap Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webliteracy.pressbooks.com\/chapter\/fact-checking-sites\/\">Mike&#8217;s guide<\/a> is extremely helpful as a resource when it comes to fact checking online. I knew about Snopes, Politifact and Factcheck.org, but the other fact checking organizations were all new to me. I think the 4 moves that Mike lays out can be extremely helpful. Starting with checking if someone else has fact checked first can save immense amounts of time. I fact checked two of the articles Mike posted to his blog and it took less than 5 minutes to look them both up on Snopes. This meant that I didn&#8217;t need to go any further in my fact checking.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate the other three steps that Mike laid out as well. I don&#8217;t know that this will change any of my online activities necessarily beyond being another tool in my tool belt for when I need it. I rarely share things online, unless they are witty or amusing, but even then I usually share it to close friends and not publicly. I am also already a cynic by nature. When I see people post something that is provocative or that produces emotion my first reaction is to fact check them. I guess in that sense this will influence my online activities because now I have far more knowledge in a quick, efficient way to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike&#8217;s guide is extremely helpful as a resource when it comes to fact checking online. I knew about Snopes, Politifact and Factcheck.org, but the other fact checking organizations were all new to me. I think the 4 moves that Mike&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/2018\/09\/the-art-of-crap-detection\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-literacy","category-four-moves","category-twu-online"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/padnTM-1h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}