Your Role
Do you want to be fooled? Or would you like to decide for yourself what is true and what is false?
Be a detective. Learn how to identify false or misleading information.
Think before you forward or share. Remember everything you tweet, post or share becomes part
of your digital tattoo.
BE AWARE OF IMAGE MANIPULATION!
Not all photographs tell truth or unfiltered truth. Sometimes images are digitally manipulated. Some are born digital. A Google reverse image search can help discover the source of an image and its possible variations.
Remember Time Magazine’s darkening of the OJ mugshot?
Remember Sandy?
11 Viral Photos Not of Hurricane Sandy (BuzzFeed)
Best advice when there's big news: Wait until tomorrow, and then read a few articles from a major metropolitan newspaper. Much of what is reported initially could be wrong. Take a walk instead!