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Title: How to Identify Misinformation
Source: http://usinfo.state.gov
URL Source: http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Jul/27-595713.html
Published: Apr 20, 2007
Author: http://usinfo.state.gov
Post Date: 2007-04-20 23:12:51 by robin
Keywords: None
Views: 166
Comments: 8

How can a journalist or a news consumer tell if a story is true or false? There are no exact rules, but the following clues can help indicate if a story or allegation is true.

• Does the story fit the pattern of a conspiracy theory?
• Does the story fit the pattern of an “urban legend?”
• Does the story contain a shocking revelation about a highly controversial issue?
• Is the source trustworthy?
• What does further research tell you?

Does the story fit the pattern of a conspiracy theory?

Does the story claim that vast, powerful, evil forces are secretly manipulating events? If so, this fits the profile of a conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theories are rarely true, even though they have great appeal and are often widely believed. In reality, events usually have much less exciting explanations.

The U.S. military or intelligence community is a favorite villain in many conspiracy theories.

For example, the Soviet disinformation apparatus regularly blamed the U.S. military or intelligence community for a variety of natural disasters as well as political events. In March 1992, then-Russian foreign intelligence chief Yevgeni Primakov admitted that the disinformation service of the Soviet KGB intelligence service had concocted the false story that the AIDS virus had been created in a US military laboratory as a biological weapon. When AIDS was first discovered, no one knew how this horrifying new disease had arisen, although scientists have now used DNA analysis to determine that “all HIV-1 strains known to infect man” are closely related to a simian immunodeficiency virus found in a western equatorial African chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes troglodytes. But the Soviets used widespread suspicions about the U.S. military to blame it for AIDS. (More details on this.)

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There are many conspiracy theory websites, which contain a great deal of unreliable information. Examples include:

• http://Rense.com
• Australian “private investigator” Joe Vialls, who died in 2005
• Conspiracy Planet

Extremist groups, such as splinter communist parties, often publish disinformation. This can be especially difficult to identify if the false allegations are published by front groups. Front groups purport to be independent, non-partisan organizations but actually controlled by political parties or groups. Some examples of front groups are:

• The International Action Center, which is a front group for a splinter communist party called the Workers World Party

• The Free Arab Voice, a website that serves as a front for Arab communist Muhammad Abu Nasr and his colleagues.

(More details on Muhammad Abu Nasr in English or Arabic.)

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#1. To: robin (#0) (Edited)

Misinformation is usually followed by:

BeAChooser   posted on   2007-04-21    0:05:29 ET

Critter  posted on  2007-04-21   0:10:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Misinformation is usually followed by:

A web address that ends in .gov

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#5. To: Esso (#4)

If it comes from the government, it can't be entirely true. They don't do Truth any more.

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