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Dear Kiron
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion

How many times have we been manipulated by what you consider to be "credible sources"?

Luis,
I didn't see the video, and as other team members I pass.

When as was a teenager my parents own a small shop that sold newspapers, so every day early in the morning or at night I took one of each (in Spanish, English, and French)...I realized that the same topic was explained in big headlines in a different way:

The bottle is white
The big bottle is white
The bottle owned by this party is white
Is that bottle grey?

Since then, I don't believe one unique source, I read news (now without my fingers getting black), same new from different sources and I build my own opinion.

This is why we need to find more than one credible source, ideally representing different schools of thought - if there is alignment across what they all say, then one might believe that to be the truth...

Glad to know I was able to make you smile, my friend :-)

Dear Kiron
Thank you for sharing your opinion with us

And when...
Isn't the "dominant opinion" the one that corresponds to the truth?

And when it turns out that, after all, the "dominant opinion" was not the real one?

This is where our own judgment has to come into play. Just because someone is speaking the loudest, doesn't mean they are correct.

Kiron

Dear Vincent
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion

How many times have social media alerted us to real situations?

Was it social media that drew attention to the corona virus outbreak in China?

Are we living again in a period in which the post-truth reigns?

Luis,
I didn't see the video, and as other team members I pass.

When as was a teenager my parents own a small shop that sold newspapers, so every day early in the morning or at night I took one of each (in Spanish, English, and French)...I realized that the same topic was explained in big headlines in a different way:

The bottle is white
The big bottle is white
The bottle owned by this party is white
Is that bottle grey?

Since then, I don't believe one unique source, I read news (now without my fingers getting black), same new from different sources and I build my own opinion.

Luis,

Social media can alert us of many things, but there are also may false alarm. It is like the story where someone cries wolf so many times that the real call doesn't get an answer.

Is some controlling country social media is the alternative, now a day.

Information is easily available in most developed countries and believes to be true. That, we don't question the truth, the source and don't search ourselves! People in controlling countries have learn to do that long ago, before social media.