Misinformation distorts the facts and affects decision making,
Yet all social media seem to proliferate alt facts.
Lately memes about arsonists being the cause of the fires in Australia has all the conatations of climate change denialists being the source of this.
ABC Australia has no such reports and only 6 people have been arrested 3 in south Australia .
The reposting of false facts is a tactic being used by the fossil fuel industry and even the liberal party in Australia and the magnitude of its repetitiveness is weaponised by multi million dollar funded think tanks by rich Australians with commercial ties to fossils fuels and now corporatised our water!
These fake posts have even shown up on Greta Ts sites.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.An ABC News (Australia) article on this issue: [abc.net.au]
A recent post about the arrests made here on the site: 24 Australians arrested for deliberately setting fires this season
I hate to say it, but the main problem is that too many people are too gullible. Taking any information from a non-reliable source (including memes) as a fact is lazy and stupid.
bingst
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Jan 9, 2020
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Yes . First I thought but who believes anything on the internet without questioning it these days. It is after all often discredited and nearly everything posted gets a counter post. But then I thought, yet there are still lots of people who believe in the sky fairy, and I wonder which are the more gullible. Then I thought I bet they are often the same people.
Fernapple
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Jan 9, 2020
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I have been chiding people about reliable sources of information going back to my earliest days on the net in '96. The most frequent non-reliable source I ran into in those days was user pages at AOL. Sadly, that "It's on the internet, so it must be true!" mentality still seems to persist.
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