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11/24/2015

Six tips to debunk fake news stories by yourself

From Poynter

The soul-searching began last week, as more and more cases emerged of established media outlets falling for false news on the Paris attacks.

The most grotesque example is probably that of the transformation of a grinning selfie by Veerender Jubbal, a Sikh man who lives in Canada, into a photo of a possible ringleader of the attacks. The photo made it on the front page of La Razón in Spain, was carried in Italy by news wire agency ANSA and by Sky TG24. At the time of writing, a full nine days later, the manipulated photo is still on Sky TG24’s Twitter profile, which has nearly 2 million followers.

In a piece for First Draft News, Claire Wardle, research director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, set the challenge clearly: “If news organisations don’t start fighting false information as it happens we risk losing our audience to the lies.” Wardle concludes her thoughtful article with an urgent call to action: “Asking everyone to run a reverse image search before they re-share an image on social media is not working. It’s time we look again at possible solutions.”

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