News Forum - Anti-Fake News Centre investigated 16,843 of 800 million posts

[Thaiger]

Fake news has become one of the most continuously pervasive problems plaguing Thailand and the rest of the world. From its creation in November of 2019 up until July 20 of this year, Thailand’s Anti-Fake News Centre has sifted through 800 million messages and opened 16,843 cases to investigate and verify information, misinformation, and disinformation. Of the nearly 17,000 fact verification investigations, a full 95% of them involved either healthcare and medical misinformation, or governmental and political stories. Nearly half – 49% – of all fake news items investigated were related to healthcare in some form, including the Covid-19 pandemic. […]

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[DesperateOldHand]

Whose to determine what's fake and what's not - anywhere, any situation?

Edited July 26, 2022 by DesperateOldHand

[anarchofarmer]

Like history, "truth" is written / dictated by the "victors"!

[Chatogaster]

 

Good article. I looked at one of the links: the official Anti-Fake News Centre/Center Facebook account. One of its recent posts caught my eye.

Yesterday, it posted a daily covid report, bluntly stating (ติดเชื้อเพิ่ม in ref 1) that 1740 more people got infected on the 25th. It's an unnuanced picture, no further information.

In particular, it doesn't mention that those 1740 come from a completely different metric, namely the number of infections that are confirmed by PCR & ATK and accepted for the official daily tally (which boils down to the number of hospital intakes, give or take a few). Ref 2 from another official Thai organization makes this overly clear (if it wasn't already common knowledge).

I can understand it if some (even many) people/groups are willing to fight negative disinformation by providing positive disinformation (and vice versa), but an organization that claims to fight disinformation (in general) should not be willing to use counter-disinformation as a tactic (unless it's renamed into the Anti-Unwanted News Center). It raises serious questions about their neutrality and trustworthiness.

Refs:
1) https://www.facebook.com/AntiFakeNewsCenter/photos/a.113638500070332/795319635235545
2) https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/610797653871896
 

 

[DesperateOldHand]

45 minutes ago, anarchofarmer said:

Like history, "truth" is written / dictated by the "victors"!

And if such a myth is repeated often and loud it all becomes true and real. 

 

[palooka]

There is a daily fake news issued by the current Thai Govt to the International Covid tally centres.

Covid positive case numbers. Today 1,828 - yeah right. 555555555555555555

Fake news is a big problem and should be stopped but when you have Pnuts Govt and others using this system for their own benefits --well it ain't going to happen, well not in my lifetime.

[Chatogaster]

1 hour ago, DesperateOldHand said:

Whose to determine what's fake and what's not - anywhere, any situation?

 

Some people value truth over anything else (including themselves or long-term goals). 
Some people are fully aware that perceived truth is a spectrum.
Some people are competent enough to determine on which side a statement lies.

Now take the intersection (what's left is probably a bunch of smart aspergers).

I'd be willing to accept their judgement.

 

[MrNovax]

Great use of tax dollars.  Hunting down information that isnt in line with the narrative and then labeling it "fake" so their propaganda isnt countered.

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Edited July 27, 2022 by KaptainRob
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[HiuMak]

Half truth or one sided story is also fake news. Local news and authority are notorious. Clean them up first