3 years before the 2016 circus and the insanity that followed, I asked this question:
/// Why is sharing the information more important then actually checking if its correct? ///
How things stay the same.
Social media is a great tool for spreading all kinds of information far and wide, free of charge. Everything you could possibly imagine or want to find and share with others, can be done so with the click of a mouse, the tap of a screen, or the press of a button.
However, these social networking platforms have increasingly become a tool for spreading MISinformation of all kinds. From small, locally targeted stuff that affects a single organization, community, region. To national and internationally targeted ones, which quickly get attention all over the world in a very short period of time.
One example of this, came out of the recent flooding in Calgary.
It was being spread on social media, that price gouging by business’s was occurring during the flooding. Some examples, were some small convenience store and Home Depot “overcharging” for a case of 24 water…
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