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Why I'm such a paranoid on most websites...

Today while searching for world wide news media sites from other countries I came across a source I never heard about. So being the paranoid that I am I attempted to do a little research on a certain specific website that gives off the air of being from either Pakistan or somewhere around south Asia.

This unknown ambivalence is what cause me to search just a little bit more than I normally would. I do tend to believe things on face value for the most part.

Looking at the YouTube links it gave seemed normal enough. Yet news they claimed was from around the world. So I asked myself where is this world news site originating? The name wasn't s common English name. The broadcast announcer was speaking in English yet very poor English. The announcer was dressed in a style that no American I know would dress.

So I dug into it further by looking at the YouTube countries that accessed their YouTube videos via a YouTube analysis site.

An oh did I get some interesting results....

The site gave as well some "example country data" I ignored it because that could be anything despite it saying its audience was 66% US viewers which it could very well be accurate.

Yet what gave it away as fake was its actual website that they gave YouTube itself.

The darn domain does not exist. Now that could mean they don't have a physical webserver yet, but the domain could exist. And it does exist. But on GoDaddy's webserver only! 🤣

FYI GoDaddy is based in Phoenix Arizona. Not Pakistan. Not India, No anywhere in south Asia.

Totally unreliable source of news when the figures lie, the source of viewers lie, and the website doesn't even exist so they lied to YouTube itself. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I think I'm justified in being a paranoid at least in this case.
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metaldog · 51-55, F
I stick to sources recommended by journalists I admire
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@metaldog there are new sources available though. And just by the fact that they are new many journalist will ignore them.

And I go by several factors. This checking was rather short. Simply because they lied to YouTube.

Lie once you're out!
metaldog · 51-55, F
@DeWayfarer you definitely have to question all the info now available..who they are and their agenda!
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@metaldog more so then ever before. There are plusses and minuses in everything. This "information age" is no different than say what happened after the printing of Gutenberg bible. Many people found out that the church was lying to them all along.
metaldog · 51-55, F
@DeWayfarer yes it's always been that way, at least now we can lift the veil of bs and do our own research
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@metaldog exactly! Yet be careful. The factions also know what happened during the Gutenberg bible era.

Do your own research, yet don't be swaded by what you might consider your own side. Everyone lies. It's the intent of the lie that matters.

Always ask yourself what was the intent on ALL sides. Not just the popular sides either.

Told you! I'm a pessimist in my original post. 🤷🏻‍♂️
metaldog · 51-55, F
@DeWayfarer no you question people's intentions, that makes you a realist and person of experience 🙂