Friday, 21 April 2017

Whose fault is it then?

In response to a previous post It Isn't Your Fault, Bob Lane (Episyllogism) responded with the question whose fault is it? Later he replied:  "I would think that individuals have an obligation in a democracy to learn the facts; to learn how to distinguish facts from nonsense; and to be skeptical about all media and government bloviations."

Which means, among other things, fact checking. Tips on how to check facts from politifact.com:
1. Ask the person making the claim for evidence. 
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2 comments:

  1. Bob22 April 2017 at 05:28

    Good suggestions! I use http://www.snopes.com/
    and http://www.factcheck.org/.

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  2. tushar soni26 April 2017 at 03:36

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