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Social Media and online resources make it easy for anyone to create, manipulate, and share information. With a click of a button, an article or picture can be retweeted, reposted, or reshared resulting in thousands if not millions of people seeing the content. That is how something goes viral and with so much sharing of information, it is important to be able to identify misinformation from truth.
Misinformation: incorrect or misleading information. Source: Merriam-Webster
Disinformation: false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth. Source: Merriam-Webster
First Draft formed as a non-profit coalition in 2015 to protect communities from harmful disinformation. They break the topic down into 7 types of disinformation:
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers the following advice to avoid COVID-19 Vaccination Scams:
The following is a list of reliable sources that can help distinguish credible information and news: