#internet misinformation

[freegazafromhamas]

To make children better fact-checkers, expose them to more misinformation — with oversight - Berkeley News

"We need to give children experience flexing these skepticism muscles and using these critical thinking skills within this online context,"

When I was in early elementary school during the days of Dial-up Internet, when Google wasn't even a household name, we had a library class where we were at computers and given a webpage to look at that went over the dangers of a poisonous molecule called Dihydrogen Monoxide that was present in all our water sources. We were asked what we learned, and we all parroted the information on the webpage and were afraid of this Dihydrogen Monoxide stuff.

Then the librarian tells us that Dihydrogen Monoxide is water, and that much of that webpage was either lies or truths twisted in a way to make water seem dangerous like "dihydrogen monoxide exposure eventually leads to death in 100% of cases".

Anyway the lesson of the day was "don't believe everything you read on the internet at face value, people can put anything on the internet."

This lesson hasn't changed to today's internet. And in many ways the situation is far worse than it was in Dial-up days. But anyone older than millenials were not taught this lesson, and it doesn't seem like folks younger than millenials are being taught this lesson either.

[gawrkin]

(Source: The Welsh Triads - The Twenty-Four Knights of Arthur's Court)

The three divine weapons of King Arthur.

Three blade weapons as his primary tools: A sword, a spear and a dagger. So, whatever powers Excalibur has, Ron and Carn should also have them too.

However, I'm sad to report that the "Carnwennan can make Arthur invisible" is apparently fake internet lore, same as the "Bedivere-is-a-dark-wizard" false fact that was touted online (including here in Tumblr).

The actual item that granted Arthur invisibility was his mantle/cloak, part of the 13 Treasures of Britain.

[captaingimpy]

Ghosts in the Machine: The Dead Internet Theory, Cyberpsychosis, and the Decline of Critical Thought

The world of Cyberpunk 2077 has a haunting concept at its core: cyberpsychosis—the mental degradation caused by signal overload and overreliance on cybernetic augmentations. While this may seem like a dystopian exaggeration, the parallels to our own world are striking. In fact, one need only look at the Dead Internet Theory and society’s increasing trust in AI to see how this fiction reflects…

Ghosts in the Machine: The Dead Internet Theory, Cyberpsychosis, and the Decline of Critical Thought

[namesisfortombstones]

This above image is not, I repeat NOT of the Biogoji on set of Godzilla vs. Biollante or the Biogoji/Gidogoji being returned after it was stolen in 1992. This is a still of the Desugoji costume from behind the scenes of Godzilla vs. Destroyer in 1995. The dead giveaway is the blotches on the shoulder, neck, chest, stomach, and thighs where the lights are that create the “burning” effect. Not only that but the Bio/Gidogoji suit doesn’t look much like this (which is a modified Mogegoji suit from Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla). GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH:

GODZILLA VS. SPACEGODZILLA:

GODZILLA VS. DESTROYER:

As you can see, the 1989/91 suit has a boxier, more rectangular longer-snouted head. Meanwhile, the 1994/95 suit has a rounder, somewhat smaller head that matches the head in the wheelbarrow picture. Not to mention, you can see the glowing effect on the neck matches exactly the same marks on the neck of the suit in the wheelbarrow.

[no-passaran]

I saw this video by the fact-checking journal Maldito Bulo and thought more people could use it, so here it is with subtitles in English.

[l-in-c-future]

If the perpetuator was a Caucasian, nobody would say anything. Surely not the far rights.

If the perpetuator had a Middle Eastern ethnicity origin, UK would flag it as 'terriorism'.

When the perpetuator came from coloured people background, the far rights immediately reacted by inciting hatred against migrants despite the person was domestically born.

Only one crucial thing the Western politicians don't want to address: the role of social media companies in facilitation of spreading mis-information and dis-information and how the business models allow people to make A LOT of money simply by having a lot of followers.

[bunnyhugs22]

It’s insane how far this fake story has gone!