About Blog Looking for facts in a sea of weird, misleading, confusing and
downright false information?
Information literacy helps one develop a «nose» for dubious or
downright false information.
Cambridge Analytica members like Wylie, who recruited Kogan to work with the company, and Kogan himself, failed to anticipate that handing so much personal data to powerful people might provide them a new way to saturate Facebook with misleading or
downright false information.
«The most high profile of these issues is the phenomenon of «fake news,» where content on the web has contributed to the spread of blatantly misleading, low quality, offensive or
downright false information.»
Not exact matches
So many people operate on
information they get from a friend or family member, who probably got that
information the same way, and eventually everyone is parroting advice that may be less - than - accurate — or just
downright false.