Considering the term and hashtag #FAKENEWS didn’t really exist a year ago I certainly believe we now live in a world where people are starting to ask questions about our news sources and their legitimacy in bringing us correct information. Ironically, I live by the premis that I will always trust a person until they … Continue reading Bananas
Fake News The first sign that something isn’t right is that the email would even come to my email. Its unsolicited and is odd that it would be addressed to a Canadian resident but be from Atlanta, Georgia in the US. I usually send these kinds of email straight to trash because I know that …
To check the authenticity of the email, I would first apply the strategies mentioned in Michael Caulfield’s guide. First of all I would try and find if any other searches of this kind have been done by one of the numerous reliable sites mentioned in his book. I would then try to ‘ go upstream’ and […]
Whenever I receive an email like this, my first reaction is to delete it because I generally mistrust emails that come from unknown sources. I do not give my personal or work email out easily so it is unusual for me to receive unsolicited emails like this. This email seems sketchy to me because of […]
I don’t trust anything in the email, Nothing at all, and I am not a normal skeptic. They use ambiguous information, like ‘several’, and name drop without citing any sources or real people. THere are emotional elements to it, like, ‘we feel’. There is nothing scientific or data driven reasoning behind what is written. Who,
We are constantly overwhelmed by information, both fictitious and factual. The internet is a hub of fear mongering, social shaming, trolling, and cynicism. We the masses have to wade through the news with a fine tooth comb to be able to pick out the shreds of truth through all of the biased spin. In a […]