How not to get hoodwinked by fake news
But how on earth are we expected to discern fact from fiction? Who do we trust? Why do we trust? How much can we trust?
It feels like we’re living in a time of high jinks and sorcery, where things are seldom what they seem. A time of falsity and deception at almost every corner, where we struggle to determine what’s real and what’s not.
Departing from the truth probably starts innocuously enough with a small lie here, a little change there … tiny things designed to create a better version of our truths as we’d like others to believe them too. Whether it’s actual surgical enhancement, or a touch of Photoshop, we’ve all spotted a bit of fakery in our time. The thing is, for the most part we can all look at them and say, well, there’s obviously been some work done. Some fake is quite easy to spot, quite harmless...
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