And now a conversation on Facts Day five. Thank you for listening. I hope you had the time to listen to this week's series on facts, and I really hope you gained a different perspective on how facts are gathered, informed, where they hold in our place in society. But how does one fact check something presenting itself to be a fact? And if you don't do the due diligence, you can be misinformed? How do you go about the process of fact checking?
Okay. This image that you included here is perfection. With this topic, the thought that came to mind were so many. First, there's a quote. What is that? You can't see the forest for the trees. I never quite understood it, but the idea I get from it is when you're almost too close, like this image, basically, you're seeing all the little shapes, but you're missing. You have to zoom back to be able to see the full word
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 1:58
But there can be times where people can repair it information and they don't really quite know the information, so they can get an idea of this information in the wrong context and totally make it into something it was never intended to be. So, yeah, like you said, one should always be mindful of the zooming in of the lens, as it were, for that fine detail can sometimes come from corrupted sources
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Renee Slay
@Renee_Slay · 1:39
I don't think I dig probably deep enough, but especially here when interacting, I'll get the surface of but the surface of it may not be enough in context with what's being presented, but it's a part of I think my learning style is once I have what defines something, then the conversation starts from there, if that makes sense. And a lot of times my perception of something will expand based on the conversation that comes after it. So that's my learning style anyway
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:38
The purest source is from the book itself rather than from somebody else who had read the book and did research and study on that subject matter and is giving you, by all accounts, an expert opinion about the thing. Yeah, it's a delicate balance you have to walk in terms of information and fact checking. But, yeah, social media, it's almost too easy to poke holes in a lot of the ideology out there and the theories and all that sort of stuff
I feel like there's going to be more restrictions. We're going to have the social media police tell us that. Well, who cares if it's a joke? Who cares if it's a parody? They information is not accurate. The information is false as they hold
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:59
But like you stated, who's to determine what is credible and what is not? Twitter has a sophisticated fact checker that verifies information, but I think people know that it's false. They just don't care if it supports their belief in their ideology, they will post it anyway because, what, it's fun. But, yeah, you should be a fact checker in your own right. Multiple sources. It's usually what I go by and what I trust
There's just these articles filled with basically biased information or not biased information, but I forgot the word that I'm looking for. But yeah, I guess biased information that caters to the individual's point of view. So you can find this information all over the website, bro. If it's available, then if it fits your narrative, then it's fact. So these people that needs to find information that fits their belief, it's out there