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Fact Checking: An Expression of Love

3/18/2018

 
Love naturally seeks truth. This is often overlooked when we compartmentalize our lives, labeling one compartment "spiritual," another "business," another "politics," and so forth. Especially, we often separate our political views from our spiritual views. If we see or hear a news story that agrees with what we hope or believe to be true, we tend to accept it at once, even if it disparages a person or accuses her or him of criminal activity. How much love is in that? At the least, we can withhold judgment until we do some fact checking. Here are some easy steps to checking facts, followed by a list of fact checking organizations.

If you want an opinion that counts, have an informed opinion!

​Steps in Fact Checking
1. Check to see if the writer gives credit to the source of information. A good news writer always gives credit to the source of the information. When reporting firsthand witnessed events, the writer will give corroborating details and other sources you can go to in order to check details for accuracy or get additional information. If no credits are given, the news item is suspect and may be fake.
2. Look up the credit(s) and bring your discriminating intelligence to bear upon what you find.  Legitimate news credits will provide further credits, details, clarification, and solid corroborating leads and supporting data that you can check for yourself. Fake news credits, on the other hand, lead to dead ends, statements unsupported by evidence, and claims that prove to be false if you take the time to do research. A fake news item may also lead to a spurious website. A spurious website is a website that has many stories but no credits, or fake credits that lead nowhere. In addition, the unsourced news stories are typically highly biased and geared to increase anxiety, paranoia, division, conflict, and allegiance to one person/leader or organization/ideology. They often include accurate facts, but will use them to manipulate thinking with false associations and linking as well as specious arguments and fallacious conclusions.
4. See what fact-checking sources and organizations say about the news item. See the list of some well-known fact checking organizations.
5. Sit back and observe your main news source(s) with a discerning eye. Is your main news source openly objective and fair, with balanced reporting, or is it obviously biased? Does it only present news it agrees with, or does it present all sides and perspectives of an issue? Is it 100% for or against a person or party? Is it respectful and dignified or does it openly disparage individuals or issues? Does it offer partial facts and arrange them to support a bias? Is the reporting superficial or sourced, objective, and complete?
6. Explore other sources of news and see how they each present the news on the same story.  This can be quite an eye opener!
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/abraham_lincoln_110340
Fact Checking Sources and Organizations

Here's a rundown [in alphabetical order] of 10 of the top fact- and bias-checking sites to share with your students. (From ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education, helping educators around the world use technology to solve tough problems in education. https://www.iste.org/) 
AllSides. While not a fact-checking site, AllSides curates stories from right, center and left-leaning media so that readers can easily compare how bias influences reporting on each topic. 
Fact Check. This nonpartisan, nonprofit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by U.S. political players, including politicians, TV ads, debates, interviews and news releases.
Media Matters. This nonprofit and self-described liberal-leaning research center monitors and corrects conservative misinformation in the media.
NewsBusters. A project of the conservative Media Research Center, NewsBusters is focused on “documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.”
Open Secrets. This nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit website run by the Center for Responsive Politics tracks how much and where candidates get their money.
Politifact. This Pulitzer Prize winning website rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials. Run by editors and reporters from the independent newspaper Tampa Bay Times, Politicfact features the Truth-O-Meter that rates statements as “True,” “Mostly True,” “Half True,” “False,” and “Pants on Fire.”
ProPublica. This independent, nonprofit newsroom has won several Pulitzer Prizes, including the 2016 Prize for Explanatory Reporting. ProPublica produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Snopes. This independent, nonpartisan website run by professional researcher and writer David Mikkelson researches urban legends and other rumors. It is often the first to set the facts straight on wild fake news claims.
The Sunlight Foundation. This nonpartisan, nonprofit organization uses public policy data-based journalism to make politics more transparent and accountable.
Washington Post Fact Checker. Although the Washington Post has a left-center bias, its checks are excellent and sourced. The bias shows up because they fact check conservative claims more than liberal ones.

Your Truth Detector

3/4/2018

 
The Rune of TruthThe Rune of Truth
What we need most in our time: Our truth detector up and running, scanning for truth and deceit, opportunity and danger. Our truth detector lets us know what is good and what is not good for us. It alerts us to advantage and warns us of danger.

It is on all the time, but it is not always consulted. We can access it most easily when we truly want to know the truth about something, when we take time daily to clear the lens of our perception, and when we check in frequently throughout the day to simple be aware and fully present.

We are all born with a fully functional truth detector, but what happens to make it so we can't use it as much as we'd like? Fundamentally, conditioning and acculturation. 

We begin acquiring hangups and prejudices from our tribe even before we are born. Everything our mother experiences, we experience. Before, and for years after birth, we are more a part of her than current medical science is able to acknowledge with its confinement to the material. Ingo Swann goes into this in detail in his book Psychic Sexuality. The implications are enormous. The importance of maternal care goes far beyond physical diet and exercise.

Once born into the world, we learn quickly that the fastest way to get our needs met is to please others and agree with them. We find out what makes people like us and respond to us and what doesn't. Or, in the worst case, we learn how to get attention even if it is in a negative way. We know innately that it is dangerous to be ignored.

Next, our parents and relatives and extended groups fill us in on their prejudices and preferences. There is safety and resources in taking on the hangups of our group because otherwise they might shun us. Again, the worst thing is to be an outcast without a people or group.

But when we become sufficiently grown, we need our truth sense in order to navigate the wider world and find those we want to be with by choice. If we really want to know the truth about things, we will look for others who do, too. We will begin the job of divesting ourselves of meaningless prejudices and limited thinking. We will begin clearing our inner eye, our personal lens through which we see the world.

What happens when you are turned on to seeing and knowing with your truth sense? You are more alive, life is far more interesting, and you gain more compassion and insight into yourself and others; you get fooled less easily and have fewer personal crises; you are more prepared for whatever is coming; you become more solution oriented. Your powers of observation increase. You use your intellectual tools and abilities to explore what is really present rather than what you think is present, or fear or want to be present.

Today, in every group---political, ethnic, economic, religious, and educational---there are people who think that they must achieve their goals through deceit. Whether a goal is pro or con regarding an issue, or whether they just want to weaken a people or group by introducing chaos and fighting, they think deceit is the way to go.

The ultimate symbol of evil, Satan, is called the father of lies. Why are lies so bad? Is deceit the ultimate evil? Deceit is a kind of murder, yet good people all over the country are playing with it whenever they believe anything in the news that fits the prejudices of their group. It's time to put this in perspective because the number of deceivers is rising, and technology is making it easier for people to be deceived. But, if we use technology with our truth sense on, we can use it to advantage. I am currently working on a workshop on how to fact check and how to use critical thinking in evaluating news items going around. It's not really that hard and it doesn't take that much time. Even without using one's truth sense, there are many signs when we are being fed disinformation. Stay tuned; it may take me a couple of weeks to get all the process in writing, but when I do, I will publish it here.

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