“Agitation through conspiracy videos” is the title of a Spiegel TV production in which we were able to participate.
How much can false reports influence our actions? False reports can be found on social media every day. Some are of a more harmless nature, or insignificant chain letters, but other hoaxes are much more dangerous.
You often find deliberately manipulated content or certain authors deliberately engage in disinformation or intentionally misinterpret content. In these situations, people usually talk about “fake news” ( compare ).
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These false reports can certainly have an influencing effect. Spiegel TV asked us about various false reports and also spoke to those affected. We will show you the excerpt from the broadcast on December 9, 2019 here.
Spiegel Online writes: They distort facts, leave out important information or slander everything that doesn't fit into their world view: Right-wing angry citizens use crude conspiracy videos to spread their own truth, especially on social networks. The “Mimikama” association in Vienna regularly uncovers such fake news on the Internet.
Detect false reports!
In principle, you can uncover false reports that claim to be news in just a few simple steps. First of all, at least after arousing skepticism, you have to ask yourself the right questions and apply a few techniques.
1. Know yourself!
When dealing with information on the Internet, it is particularly important to know yourself, your own media behavior and your own expectations. How do you receive content yourself? Are you able to accept unpleasant points of view or facts? Above all: What type of media do I choose for my daily consumption?[mk_ad]
2. Exaggerated presentation
Now it's about the content itself. It is important to have some kind of awareness of when content is incorrect, altered or presented in a biased way. If you are familiar with various narratives, it is quite helpful in this area. Hoaxes tend to use a specific framing.An exaggerated presentation of content without careful explanations should be the first alarm signal. Lots of opinion, little content, hardly any reliable source if available at all, and very shortened presentations that are almost compressed to headlines should be viewed with caution.
3. Who actually writes here?
Look at the imprint of a website or blog. Are you dealing with transparent and reputable information or are you dealing with random and untraceable address information for a post office box in Central America? Or maybe there is no imprint at all? Non-existent contact points should be viewed more critically.It is also important to differentiate: Is it an opinion blog or a reputable press site?
4. Content cross-check
Is this content also available on other media portals? A Google search under the news tab will help here. Has this topic been covered by different journalists or is it just a pure copy and paste by anonymously run blogs? Enter parts of the headline into the Google search bar; if the wording of the messages is often the same, this indicates unreflected copies.5. Picture check
Crazy situations with harsh pictures: does the picture belong to a story or does the story even belong to a picture? The “hybrid fake” is very common among false reports, in which either the image shows a real situation but the accompanying text is incorrect, or the content of the text is correct but is depicted incorrectly. A reverse search for images helps here:image[9]
Tip for advanced users: Reverse searches using Google or TinEye Reverse Image Search sometimes do not produce any results because you do not know an image or have not included it in the index. Here, image searches via Yandex can sometimes produce astonishing results. Hoaxes often use images from a foreign context.
4b & 5b.
Use filters in search engines to limit the search! If you notice that a result is obviously not as brand new as a website wants to sell you, then use the nesting principle, for example, to use the time filter. Filter search results by their publication period and find out when a message was first published, for example.6. Yes, we have a search engine!
A convenient way, provided that a specific topic has already been covered by us, is our search engine! At http://hoaxsearch.com/ you can search for hoaxes in the classic way using search terms. If you don't see any results using different search terms, you can send a direct inquiry using our contact form.
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