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Mike Caulfield
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Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press 2023). Researcher, infolit/online rumor. Day job in academic tech.
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If you do this, you'll not only be protected against the small number of AI fakes, but the exponentially larger number of miscontextualized videos, as I talk about here. www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...

The dominating threat has instead been real footage used out of context. The vast majority of images and videos fact-checkers have debunked during the war have included footage from other countries like Syria or Turkey, and the past, like this video that was actually from a previous conflict in Gaza. “There’s just a lot of stuff out there to misrepresent when it comes to wars, whether it’s footage of this conflict, of previous conflicts, or for that matter video game conflicts,” said Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. “Wars are densely documented things, which means if you are looking for media to misrepresent there’s plenty of choices.”
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Anyway, Sam Wineburg and I talk about this at length in our new book Verified, it's out soon, you should order it. It's a practical guide to sorting through these things. (Sam calls it a "Strunk and White Guide to Navigating the Internet") www.amazon.com/Verified-Str...

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Mike Caulfield
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social
Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press 2023). Researcher, infolit/online rumor. Day job in academic tech.
4.2k followers1.1k following4.4k posts
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