Bing Lu- Module 4 Comic 1
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- Hi James, I'd like to share a piece of news with you. Have you ever heard that China produces plastic toxic rice? I happened to read it from IG last week. Not sure if this is true. It sounds scary.
- Bing, is there a link to do fact check? I doubt its reliability as food safety is crucial to health. I think you know much online misinformation exists on websites and social media. It's also so easy to spread them.
- Well, Bing, I have several suggestions based on my past media literacy education. You can go to Google to search Bit.ly/plasticrice to find its original source. You can also visit snopes to verify the source. Feel free to check other sources as well. It's important for us to have reliable online information.
- I don't think there is a link from the IG account holder. That guy only posted text and an image of a bag of rice. But when I read the comments section, another reader replied with a link on this news.
- Yeah. But one important point is that people just do not judge information and share randomly. I always do search through Google and Wikipedia to verify information before I share to my friends on Facebook, Twitter, IG and YouTube.
- That makes sense. We are living in a computer age. This gives us easy and frequent access to news and articles.
- On Twitter, some people are biased towards information that they are interested in and are willing to believe that is true. I think you know that some Twitter account holders have bluecheckers. Those Twitter users are reliable as they only tell what they know.
- Yes. To be honest, I also often doubt what I read on Twitter. There are so many hashtags with information difficult to tell whether they are reliable or not.
- Exactly, James!
- Media literacy plays an important role. Everyone should learn how to verify information and cross-check relevant sources. Track evidence and double check before spreading news. This is essential for every one in our contemporary era.
- Yeah. I'll check the validity of this Chinese plastic rice news and let you know the results.
- Let's continue to discuss the importance of media literacy in our daily life another day.
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