| Friends, there is a solution! - If you're a CONSERVATIVE, read liberal. - If you're a LIBERAL, read conservative. - If you're a proclaimed CENTRIST, read everything. Schools don't teach us how to read and process information objectively but hopefully your first history professor explained that historical bias and bias in writing well...is human and old as history itself. Embrace it! 1. Check the veracity of claims and statements made in popular news stories, social media posts and political statements. - https://www.snopes.com/ - https://www.factcheck.org/ - https://www.politifact.com/ 2. Additionally, there is a separate body, International Fact-Checking Network, that checks the common fact-checking organizations above for bias and truth as well in their fact checking. - https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/ - https://www.poynter.org/major-funders/ 3. There's also the independently run MediaBiasFactCheck site which has found that the fact-checking sites above are pretty close to the center in their fact-checking and myth-busting. - https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ - https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/methodology/ |
The problem seems to be more centralisation of power and decision making. Consume information to act rather than sit and tweet.