DISINFORMATION. THE OUTLINE

Hello, everyone!

I’m here to share my progress on working on my future persuasive speech. 

In one of the previous posts I define the main idea, the purpose and the objectives of my speech. This post is going to be devoted to building a plan of the speech.

I will remind you: the topic of my persuasive speech is What Disinformation in Social Media.

And here is the outline of covering this issue:

Introduction

1.       The web provides a highly interconnected world-wide platform for everyone to spread information to millions of people in a matter of few minutes, at little to no cost.

A. On social media, people’s limited attention pushes them to share items before even reading them – in part because people react emotionally, not logically, to information they come across. That’s especially true when the 

topic confirms what a person already believes.

B. “Lies spread faster than the truth”

2. I would like to discuss the problem of spreading of misleading information through the  Social media and cover the following aspects of the  issue:

A. Creation of disinformation

B. The impact of disinformation

C. The ways to avoid disinformation

Body

1.     How is Disinformation built?

A. False information can be created and spread easily through the web and social media platforms, resulting in widespread real-world impact. There are several sources of spreading Disinformation in Social Media.

a) news

b) online advertisement

c) social websites

B. What is the purpose of Disinformation?

a)   to create social opinion using psychological tricks.

b)  to manipulate through the competition in news and media

c)   to mislead individuals or society

C. There are four main methods of spreading disinformation

a)        Selective Censorship

b)       Manipulation of search rankings

c)        Hacking and Releasing

d)       Directly Sharing Disinformation

2. The Impact of Disinformation

A. The influence on society

a) creating stereotypes

b)imposing values

B. The influence on personality

a) violation of human rights: impact on data protection, privacy, human dignity and autonomy

b) destroying mentally and physically  

3. How to avoid Disinformation in the age of social media? Can we stop it?

A. You cannot define Disinformation without knowing the Information. Remember that the creators of disinformation purposely make content that is designed to trigger an emotional response, so if you find yourself having those reactions, please pause and consider the following questions.

a)        Is this the original account, article, or piece of content?

b)       Who shared this or created it?

c)        When was this created?

d)       What account is sharing this? When was the account created? Do they share things from all over the world at all times during the day and night? Could this be a bot?

e)        Why was this shared?

B. You can help prevent disinformation fires on social media, here’s how:

a)        Search online for the information or claim. Sometimes, you’ll be able to find fact-checkers online who have worked to debunk them. If the claim hasn’t been reported widely by the press, there’s a good chance this is because journalists couldn’t confirm it.

b)       Look at who posted this content. Inspect the poster's profile, how long their account has been active, and post history to see if they demonstrate bot-like behavior.

c)        Check the profile picture of the account. Do a reverse image search of the photo. If it’s a stock image or an image of a celebrity, then that’s a less reliable source because it’s anonymous.

d)       Search for other social media accounts for this person. See what you can find out about that person, do they have political or religious affiliations that might give them a reason for spreading a particular point of view?

e)       Inspect the content the account posted.  Does it look too good to be true? If it does then it usually isn’t real. Try a reverse image search. Much disinformation uses old images out of context to push a narrative.

Conclusion

1.     With the rise of fake news, advertisements, guidance we are teetering on the brink of the end of reality, where we cannot tell what is real from what is fake. And that's potentially incredibly dangerous. We have to be vigilant in defending the truth against disinformation.

2.     Thus, It is our responsibility to prevent ourselves from being misled.

A.     Filter the information

B.      Rely on the authorized sources