For the youth and some adults, Facebook is one of the few best and easiest ways in being aware of what’s happening around. Some people use it for the means of knowing the trend, the news, and other sorts of stuff. It is actually good because Facebook is used by more than a billion people.
However, it is not exempted from the harsh environment of reality that even criminals use this to plant wrong information to the brains of its users. Many people tend to forget that not everything they see on Facebook is real and in this article, we will help you on how you can fact-check the things you will see and the things you will share on Facebook.
Well, I am not saying that the topmost result you see on Google is the most legitimate one, you can go and Google it and compare different opinions and websites on the specific topic you are trying to touch. Of course, not everything on Google is correct as well that’s why you need to ask for different opinions and compare it from there in order for you to share relevant and legitimate things on Facebook.
Use fact-checking tools
Pictures are one of the few things that you can recycle online and with this being said, they can use it in order to make or break information that can be shared online. What we can do to ensure that what we are to spread is correct is to check it in multiple sources. These two tools can help you.
Snopes – From hoaxes, legends, internet myths can be found here. You can also check if a certain mystery is debunked in this website.
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