As you might imagine, attempting to figure out if news from another country is a reliable source isn't the easiest thing to do.
An example is from Amnesty International just last month reporting that up to 13,000 had been hanged in a Syrian prison for an "extermination" campaign.
The problem with this report is that there so happens to be no evidence whatsoever, being the reason why it was dismissed as "fake news" by the former UK Ambassador, Peter Ford. You can hear what Mr. Ford had to say about the report from the video below when speaking to an interviewer of Sky News.
Is your note about Amnesty International from that video? Somehwere else? I think you're on to a very interesting article--now take this further by expanding those body sections where you talk about the Syria/AI situation with specific examples that are also highlighted in that video.
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I can understand how its a little bit more hard to spot.
ReplyDeleteI never thought about how hard it was to spot fake news regarding other countries, but now that I think about it, it really is ! Unless we live in the country a lot of us don't follow the news 100%. Even us that live in the U.S. don't often follow the news.
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