{"id":80239,"date":"2020-11-23T14:50:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T19:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/?p=80239"},"modified":"2020-12-31T17:49:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:49:23","slug":"comment-sassurer-quune-nouvelle-trouvee-en-ligne-est-fiable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/comment-sassurer-quune-nouvelle-trouvee-en-ligne-est-fiable\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be sure that a piece of new found online is reliable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Following their recent \u00ab Trust Misplaced \u00bb study, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/sites\/default\/files\/ct\/publication\/documents\/2020-10\/trust-misplaced-2020.pdf\">Trust Project <\/a>takes stock of questions to ask to help easily distinguish reliable and impartial news online.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thetrustproject.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trust Project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">international consortium involving approximately 120 news organizations working towards greater transparency and accountability in the global news industry, released a new study. In it, we learn that 82% of the interrogated people appreciate and are still looking for reliable news worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab The fact that so many people still recognize reliable information\u2019s value is encouraging \u00bb, Sally Lehrman, founder and Chief executive, Trust Project declares.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The general public is yet still overwhelmed by the news onslaught and worried by the numerous news frauds out there.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Is digitalisation to blame?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the organisation, digitalisation has lead to the multiplication of media platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If many are qualitative and trustworthy, some still take advantage of it to spread fake news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The arrival of social media platforms hasn\u2019t helped the cause either. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab Truth is rapidly becoming a subjective, personal concept ruled mostly by emotions. We now speak OUR truth as opposed to THE truth \u00bb, Darrel Bricker, PhD, Global CEO, Ipsos Public Affairs, adds.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He adds that media now need, because of digitalisation, to attract eyeballs and clicks and has producers and editors moving to the more extreme edges of news reporting and storytelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Stay informed without the stress<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staying informed can also be the cause of a lot of stress, as Trust Project\u2019s founder and Chief executive explains.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab Getting informed is like swimming in an ocean of poisonous jellyfish. People have trouble keeping up with the rapid evolution of the news cycle and, at the same time, correctly interpreting news they find online, and acting accordingly. This creates anxiety in an already difficult year. \u00bb<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the key findings of that study shows that only 30% of the interrogated news readers know how to differentiate a piece of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">real <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">information from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fake news<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The consortium then asked : how can we help the population make sure a piece of news is trustworthy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They came up with 5 questions the general public can ask themselves to distinguish reliable news more easily.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><b>Can you identify the news organisation?<\/b><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does it clearly state who owns it, does it publish its ethics code and other general guidelines, and does it present its mission and priorities in terms of news coverage?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><b>Is there diversity?<\/b><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What efforts and commitments does the media make to present diverse points of view, according to races, social classes, generations, geography, genders, sexual?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Is it news or an opinion piece?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is the article designed to inform or to convince you? In the case of trust worthy journalism, the pieces you read are here to help you make your own opinions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Can you identify the sources?<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does the journalist clearly present their sources and indicate why they are reliable? Do you see more than one source confirming what has been said in the article?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Is the journalist an expert?<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does he know your community, does he use solid proofs, is he rigorous?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>An alert and engaged public<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the teams behind the study, the general public has an important role to play in the mediatic landscape\u2019s quality<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By asking these questions, readers can stay alert and can prevent spreading even more <em>fake news<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab Everyday people don\u2019t often recognize their own role in maintaining a healthy information environment that prioritizes honesty and substance \u00bb, Sally Lehrman continues.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to her, \u00ab <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">few people just &#8220;consume&#8221; news &#8211; we integrate it with other things we know, we act on it, we share it on our digital devices and by word-of-mouth \u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab By taking a few steps to assess the sources of our news, we have a more reliable foundation to act upon. We also have the security of knowing that anything we pass along comes from a trustworthy source. The purveyors of misinformation and deception rely on gullible people to amplify their message and give it credence \u00bb, she concludes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6>Photo credits :\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@pixel_talkies?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Nijwam Swargiary<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following their recent \u00ab Trust Misplaced \u00bb study, the Trust Project takes stock of questions to ask to help easily distinguish reliable and impartial news online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[55,37,8,56,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80239"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81513,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80239\/revisions\/81513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isarta.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}