Who is fake news and how do you know the difference?

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1) Review their listed sources
2) Snopes.com is helpful
3) Compare with international news
4) Use common sense to spot misleading content
5) Get a sense for their level of bias*

* "How biased is your news source? You probably won’t agree with this chart". By Shawn Langlois. Market Watch. Feb 21, 2018. Online at: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-biased-is-your-news-source-you-probably-wont-agree-with-this-chart-2018-02-28

SW-User

Who?
You observe......the fake always shows itself.

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gol979 · 46-50, M

@SW-User that's my point. How can you step back and observe in a neutral way and see the "fake" when you're already observing your bias? It's paradoxical

SW-User

@gol979 There are no absolute truths when emotion is involved. But to me, my truth and my instinct will be the most important. When I step back, some of what clouds me at a closer distance evaporates.
It is never going to be perfect or black and white.

gol979 · 46-50, M

@SW-User I agree. It's a complex puzzle

Soxs45 ·

It's all fake. The beautiful part of living in America you can choose the facts you want.

gol979 · 46-50, M

@Soxs45 you can't choose facts. You can choose opinions

Anonymartyr · M

If the news came from any American sources it should immediately be ignored as Fake News, The same applies to any other commercial news casting.

SW-User

Fake News is the chick that dumped Trump in high school. Hence his obsession

midnightsun · 26-30, M

Who?

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