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https://theconversation.com/no-youre-not-that-good-at-detecting-fake-videos-2-misinformation-experts-explain-why-and-how-you-can-develop-the-power-to-resist-these-deceptions-217793>
"Someone following the 2024 presidential election could have seen the following
two videos on social media. One shows a man holding a bin full of mail-in
ballots entering a building. The other, from before Joe Biden withdrew from the
race and labeled “Migrants talk about 2024 election,” shows a man interviewing
several people in Spanish, all of whom answer that they plan to vote for Biden.
These videos purport to show different types of illegal election activity:
ballot harvesting and noncitizen voting. Both videos are real, not
AI-generated, and both show real people behaving authentically, not acting.
They also do not show the events they claim to represent.
The first shows a postal worker delivering mailed-in ballots to an election
center; the second is deceptively edited to falsely imply that the interviewees
were stating their intentions to vote rather than whom they would vote for if
they were eligible to vote."
Punchline:
"Social media reports of “late-breaking news” are not likely to be reporting at
all, but they are often pushed by rage merchants wrapping an interpretation
around a YouTube video accompanied by lightning bolt emojis and strings of
exclamation points. Reliable reporters need time to establish what happened.
Rage merchants don’t. The con artist and the propagandist feed on the
impatient. Your greatest information-literacy superpower is learning to wait."
This is why I often post “slow news” - something that’s still newsworthy a few
days or weeks later.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
