By Jeovanne Finch-Negron
What is reliable and correct information to you? I want you to take a second right now and think about how that would look when reading it. Where there is correct information and news there will always be fake news or misinformation that’s meant to mislead you. I know that you are reading this thinking “Why is this really important to me to learn about and why should I care?” You should be worried about what kind of effect that misleading and incorrect information has on you because of the negative effects it can have on your mind, especially at a very young age. In a way when we read informative articles that are not true and are meant to manipulate the way you think to side with the author’s ideas is corrosive to the mind. You can think how is it actually corrosive for my brain but the way you see the world by following a belief that is only one-sided from that information doesn’t allow you to think about it in the full picture. I want you at this exact moment to take ten seconds to think about a time where you saw an article that caught your eye because of how crazy it sounded. The way an author writes their articles is all for a reason so there is no accident when you read something that doesn’t sound right. Even though the author can lead you into believing fake information there are ways for you to protect yourself from untrustworthy sources of information or authors trying to make you side with their ideals. Anytime that there is something that makes you think is this actually true from any article or and anything someone is saying, challenge those beliefs. Fact check the thought and the beliefs that the other person is trying to get across or the article is working to persuade you to believe what they are telling you. For me, you and other youth like us, we need to be more aware of the information that we are being fed every single day and choosing if we want to believe them. The misinformation that we as kids can get when scrolling through social media can be corrosive our new developing brains that don’t even know what the real world looks like. If you are looking to fact check something or something catches your interest to look up you should go to trusted websites like New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and BBC for that information. There are so many good sources out there but here are a lot of bad one-sided sources that neglects the other parties’ point of view when reporting a problem. Another indicator of if the source is reliable is by looking at the URL when the end of the search. Some of the thing you would actually looks for is if it says: .GOV, .ORG and .EDU are good signs that your source is reliable but be wary of some of the websites that have .COM at the end of it. This is something that everyone has to be aware of when listening to ideas of others, researching information for a project, looking for what’s on the news and just even when we scroll of social media.
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Lynn Girven
2/28/2023 04:09:29 pm
Great! .com means that it is a business!
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