Several methods and strategies for detecting rumors and
false news
Our
experience has shown that most of the rumors have a common structure and
features that can be identified even by ordinary people and can have a
significant effect on reducing their volume of publication. In this post
we introduce some of these features.
The piece of film and photo slice
are the main tools of the rumors
A picture as much as has thousand lines of
text to say, may give a possibility to make thousand rumors too. The
specific angle of camera, the uncertainty of what happened before and after the
piece of the film, linking unrelated photos, manipulating photos and videos
(photoshop), low quality, uncertain details and ... may create the opportunity
for storytelling and rumors.
Declare relative dates instead of
the specified date
An hour ago, last night, today, recently, from tomorrow,
the latest achievements ... For example, over the past three years, a rumor has
been "recently launched by Google to change the name of the Persian Gulf by
Internet voting." Or "The latest research by Japanese scholars
..."
Peculiar and ambiguous news
Doctors and scientists have discovered the latest medical
achievements. Which doctors? Which scientists?! Quantum
mysticism, secret law, water intelligence, etc. are more examples.
Refer to unrealistic sources with
strange names
(The French Alien News Network, Dr. Chuang's Team at
Tokyo Center!) It's better to search for the name and website on the Internet
to find out the truth.
Propaganda or anti-ideological
and racist propaganda for a particular sect
The intense stimulation of emotion through exaggeration
in tragic fictional stories, heartbreaking images, human emotional
relationships, health threats, irritation, or religious beliefs ...
The lack of logical and
specialized source communication with the text
(The head of the heart department of Japan main hospital says
the mobile signal is harmful to the brain!)
Commercial advertising in the
form of rumors!
All companies have products which are contaminated and
carcinogenic with the exception of products of the company X . A perfect example was what happened to the P & G Company in 1980. It was reported that his
logo, which showed a man on the moon, actually represented a devil with horns
and with the number "666" hidden. People began to think that the
company supported satanic sects and stopped buying their products, causing
millions in losses.
Internet and Google are not
sources!
These are communication and search tools. Anything
found in it is not right, even if it has been repeated in several web pages. If
the story has been written in English, still it does not confirm its
authenticity!
Blind witnesses!
All of us have seen people who say in defense of a
strange claim: "I have seen one of my friends or relatives with my own
eyes!" If you are smart, ask for meeting with that third person and
hear the truth in order to discover what the reality of the story is.
Know the rumor hot market season!
A lot of rumors suddenly emerge! The rumors are
waiting for the opportunity to start folding in line with the events and news which
are being released. If you are a little update with the news, you're highly
likely prepare for seasonal rumors.
Use of fallacy and sophistry
Examples: It can be seen in many messages or we already
put many information about it on our Facebook page, which we will update it
shortly.
The combination of lies and
reality
It may happen to you before that you have heard or read
news and you only being sure about the correctness of part of it and you may assume
that the rest of the text or news is surely true as well.
Questions:
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Have
you ever been tricked by rumors?
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What do you consider to detect rumors?
Comments
If you are asking how I collect rumors I'd say that I'm just like Lord Varys and the little-finger from the Game of Thrones use people. Ha-ha-ha
By the way is there any other way to collect them?
There is no one best way to detect rumors. We have to learn how to listen carefully as well as to keep our own opinions to ourselves. Some matters need to be researched and verified throughly, for some it's pretty easy to guess that they are just raw lies. So, in a nutshell, we shouldn't believe everything we hear.
I think first what needs to be used is common sense. If a story sounds very unrealistic that probably means that something is wrong here. Secondly, if the rumor is connected with some place or people I will try to start to seek for truth from there by asking people to confirm or deny situation. Also, it's always good to remember that internet is huge and there are people who always spend lots of their time on solving such things and you always can ask them for help.
I think rumors can not always be part of the truth; sometimes it can be a lie that, according to wrong evidence, the rumor's broadcaster gets the result.
That was exactly what I want to say in my text. Anything that can be seen or heard about the possibility of a mistake in it, and these errors sometimes make a wrong decision on a subject.
So the more we accrue about the hearings, the less chance we get wronged.
Unfortunately, many people do not have the right research knowledge or the right to research about a rumor, so instead of spending time trying to find out the truth they prefer to accept it or try to add reasons to prove their rumors with their evacuation.
I think the best way is to keep the distance from the things that people say. It's worth to confirm in a trusted source. For sure, we shouldn't spread unreliable information.
I try to check the information I read. However, it is hard to check everything.
To detect rumors I always check the source of an information and decide whether it is reliable or not.
Yes I did. But I didn't remember any specific situation.
What do you consider to detect rumors?
I try to find sources I could trust, and ignore screaming titles.
I think detecting rumors is pretty hard as you usually can't simply ask a victim to explain some situtations. The best way is not to be involved in rumor and avoid this in social life.
Yes, many times. Rumours are everywhere around us and it is really hard sometimes to locate them and tell them apart from the truth.I think the points given in this article are really useful.
- What do you consider to detect rumors?
I usually consider radical opinions rumours in advance, just to stay on the safe side, before I check the reliability of the information they carry. Usually world is not black-and-white and extreme cases are quite rare, like for example - new deadly disease is a threath to humanity, or Kim Jong Un has set out the nuclear weapons on the US. Usually they are just used to draw people's attention and as a clickbait.
my take on filtering rumors is to check as many sources as possible and not to judge based on non facts.
I try to verify news that my mind consider to be suspicious. I have no idea which factors my mind take into consideration but it somehow does it
I don't remember it in fact, but possibly yes.
What do you consider to detect rumors?
Mostly I check the source and if it was not changed recently. And history of that changes.
Everyone wants to be so clever to avoid being outsmarted, but I think the best option to detect rumors is just checking every information we get.
For sure but then the truth come out anyways .
- What do you consider to detect rumors?
I do reasearch or some „stalking” type of Research because if something is shoking or hard to believe i like to know The truth
How do I fight with rumors? I Try to check the rumor in few, not related to each other sources.
If we are talking about a person in a narrow circle, then the answer is no, I prefer to make a conclusion about the person by myself.
If we are talking about some media rumors so I guess I was tricked so many times.
What do you consider to detect rumors?
I think comparing few sources that not based on rumors.
I think that is hard to find someone who haven't been tricked by rumors. I'm rather gullible so it wasn't hard to do.
What do you consider to detect rumors?
Sometimes it's not so hard. Of course the best idea (if it comes about our friends) it's try to talk with main caracter of rumors about them. If it comes about rumors about famous people or things whith don't have influence on our live, i think that the bes option is waiting. The truth will always come out