Das Video kommt von YouTube: erst beim Abspielen verbindet sich die Seite mit YouTube (Google).
Fake News: Fact & Fiction - Episode 3: Information or disinformation?
Das Wichtigste aus dem Video
Tipp auf eine Zeit – das Video springt genau dorthin.
Transkriptautomatisch erstellt · 134 Zeilen
- Hello this is Fake News: Fact and Fiction from BBC Learning English. I'm Hugo and
- I'm Sam. In the program today we'll hear from expert
- Samantha Bradshaw on the dangers of fake news, and I'll be giving you some
- information about information. We will also
- hear a story about what happened when fake
- news was spread in a small town in Mexico. Now Sam how are you today? I'm
- fine thanks Hugo, how are you? I am very well and I'm looking forward to your
- vocabulary slot later. Okay, I am today going to be talking about the word
- information. I can hardly wait. Yeah I think that might be fake sincerity there
- - no honestly I'm really looking forward to it - okay, okay well we'll see if you
- feel the same way afterwards. Here is everything you could ever want to know
- about the word information, maybe not everything but as much as I could fit in.
- What is information? Information is knowledge, it's facts and details about a
- particular subject. Grammatically information is an
- uncountable noun so we talk about bits of information or pieces of information
- but not informations. Information has a number of very closely related
- grammatical variations - the verb to inform is quite formal and means to tell
- someone something and the adjective informative is used to describe
- information that is useful and interesting. Information also appears in
- at least two initialisms I.T. - information technology and F.Y.I. - for your
- information. Information comes from sources and there are many different
- sources of information including TV, radio, newspapers, books, magazines, the
- internet, social media, teachers, friends, colleagues, even overheard conversations
- on the bus. In fact, wherever we turn there is
- information of one kind or another and not all information is useful
- or appropriate so it's definitely possible to have too much information.
- In fact that's a phrase we use when someone
- tells us something that is very personal and makes us feel a little uncomfortable.
- You haven't changed your underpants in a week?! Oh too much information. Too
- much information is another initialism - T.M.I. When thinking about
- fake news we should be aware that information isn't always true and not
- all sources of information are reliable or accurate. We need to be on the lookout
- for disinformation which is false information deliberately spread and
- misinformation which is false information that is accidentally spread
- though to be honest these expressions are both commonly used for the same
- thing - fake news. I hope that wasn't T.M.I. now F.Y.I. it's back to the studio.
- Thanks, that was very informative. Ah Hugo you're very
- good. I try my best. But now our theme of the day is the possible dangers of
- sharing fake news. To give us an overview we're going to hear from Samantha
- Bradshaw from Oxford University. She's a researcher in fake news and
- disinformation at the Oxford Internet Institute.
- Fake news can have real human consequences when it spreads from the
- online world to the offline world particularly because of the speed at
- which this disinformation can spread. Often unlike in the past where there are
- many checks to the information that was being put out to the public there aren't
- as many checks with social media and viral
- stories containing fake news or other forms of disinformation have real-life
- consequences for people. For example, if we look at India or Mexico
- disinformation and fake news have led to people actually being killed. If we look
- at the medical world with vaccines, a lot of the anti-vacs movement
- narratives and the fake news about vaccinating children
- have caused real-life children not to get vaccinated and then die of sickness
- later. So there are real consequences to fake news and to these rumors that
- spread online. So Samantha was talking a
- lot about consequences there. Yes some tragic consequences in that case. So
- consequences are the result of things that happen or in the case of
- vaccinations don't happen and the result is usually bad. Yeah and she mentioned a
- story in Mexico when people were killed as a result of fake news and I remember
- that because we covered that story here at the BBC. I tracked down one of the
- producers who worked on the story, Reha Kansara, to find out more of the details
- Reha you covered a tragic story and that
- was because of fake news. Tell us about that.
- So this is the story about two men who were murdered for something that they
- didn't do. These two men, they were going back home, they stopped over by a school
- to take a break. They had loud music on and were resting
- in their car but someone at the school got suspicious and so
- they called the police. As soon as the police arrested them not
- for you know not for anything but just finding you know beer bottles, empty beer
- bottles in that car. People came, saw everything that was happening outside
- the school and started spreading fake news on Whatsapp.
- The rumor that essentially spread was that they were two men who
- were child kidnappers who were waiting outside of school to abduct children and
- that obviously caused a frenzy on social media, on Whatsapp, and that turned into
- something bigger when they were arrested.
- because this went from Whatsapp to Facebook, gathered on Facebook to call
- out on people to come outside of the police station and basically take the
- law into their own hands. They were dragged from the police station to a
- town hall, doused in petrol and then lit on fire. Lynchings are not a new thing but
- what is new is the way that this whole thing was filmed on Facebook. It really
- shows the danger because it went from Whatsapp to Facebook and then it was a
- very small town in Mexico so in a matter of hours everybody was talking about it
- and what struck you the most when covering the story? The fact that people
- so easily believed things without you know fact-checking or double sourcing
- things. It has grave consequences and this was one of them. Has there been any
- change in terms of I don't know legislation in Mexico like public
- perception even like public behavior when when they said something that is
- not true? There are people talking about misinformation more particularly over
- here disinformation - the fact that people can turn lies into actual news
- and this is something that Mexico is dealing with not just with lynchings but
- also with elections and just in general fake news in the country and so you have
- platforms like Lo Que Sigue that is the you know that has had to come about just to
- combat fake news in the country. Reha, thank you very much indeed.
- Thank you. A terrible story Sam. Yeah
- really really tragic. Yeah and we know this has happened not just in Mexico but
- also in other countries as well like in India and Myanmar.
- Yeah it just goes to show that we have to be really really careful when we're
- sharing information online. Most of us only share cute cat videos probably but
- there are consequences to things like gossip that are shared. It seems a little
- bit insensitive to talk about vocabulary after such a tragic story but Reha did
- use a really interesting journalistic term there. So could you explain to us
- what double-sourcing means. So it is making sure that you have two
- independent sources confirm the same information but you also have to make
- sure that these sources are not confirming you know the news using the
- same source themselves. Now if you are an
- avid news consumer and want some advice
- on what you consider before you share anything on social media here's Reha
- again with her top tip. The best tip that
- I can give people who are consuming news
- non-stop is that you need to if you see something you need to find a way to
- verify it. That means if you see something in the news check another
- media organisation's coverage of that news
- to see whether they are following the same line. If you see something on
- Whatsapp that isn't news but people are spreading question why they're spreading
- it - what's their agenda? You know if there is something involved in it that shows
- that it could have a reliable source of news then go to that source and find out
- what's happening. Well it's a great tip there, not just for
- journalists but for everybody. It's very important to verify before sharing.
- Absolutely and to verify simply means to check that something is true. Okay
- well almost done for today before we go Sam reminders of today's
- key vocabulary. Of course, very happy to. So
- today I was talking about different forms of the word information.
- Information itself is an uncountable noun and when it comes to fake news you
- can talk about disinformation which is deliberately fake information and then
- there's also misinformation which is accidentally fake information. So for
- example if you're sharing something that you didn't know was fake that's
- misinformation but you might hear misinformation and disinformation being
- used interchangeably. The adjective for something that is interesting and useful
- is informative. In the programme we also talked about the
- word consequences which are the negative results of something
- and we also heard the word double- sourcing
- which is checking a news story is true by seeing if two independent
- sources are reporting the same thing and if you do that you may be able to verify
- the story and you may be able to confirm that it is indeed true. Thank you Sam and
- that's all from us today. Share safely, good bye, bye.
Zum Nachlesen
Fake NewsFake News (auch Fakenews; englisch fake news [ˈfɛɪ̯kˌnjuːz]) ist ein Anglizismus und bezeichnet absichtlich falsche oder irreführende Informationen, …
InformationSiehe auch: Entropie (Informationstheorie). Semantische Ebene der Information. Bearbeiten. Strukturierte, syntaktische Informationen werden erst verwertbar …