Misinformation, the media, and the role you're playing in both | Blake Simpson | TEDxNashville

[bonechillingtales]

She did a great job being fair and laying out her case here. This needs more views! She’s right.

[jhaychylla]

My main take away was: We need to get back to being a critical thinker. I agree with her wholeheartedly. I took a course on journalism in college and I remember my instructor emphasizing that besides informing the public of truthful, verifiable information, the goal is to motivate people to think critically about what's being conveyed to them. Thank you Ms Simpson for your excellent presentation. It was very refreshing. Misinformation is more prevalent today and one has to fine tune their discernment, sift for truth better in order to get and stay ahead of the curves on this information highway.

[ThreeSingleandco]

I really like her point that misinformation is especially powerful with today's media because we're able to choose the information that we expose ourselves too. This leads to the creation echo chambers, in which we can only escape through outside opinion.

And also the anecdote at 11:25, even the most well-informed can be vulnerable to misinformation if they blindly gain their facts

[aparnajairaj]

This needs to get more views! Such a relevant take on misinfo!

[lomg]

Critical thinking is a luxury. Most people have lives, friends, a career, a hobby. If everyone spent their times fact checking information, nobody would have time to do anything! It should be the professors responsibility to be the reliable source so that your average Joe can spend one hour listening to a podcast and move on with his life, so that he doesn’t have to spend 24 hours fact checking everything.

Awesome information. Critical thinking about what matters to you. Well said.

[SeeScotland]

Personally I'm never on auto pilot and I never feel there's to much information.
As Judge Judy Says "if it doesn't make sense it's not true "
Lies never stand upto commonsense.

[heavyriff]

She is 100% right on! Very few people do their own research and think for themselves. You can take any subject, the COVID one is a great one. Digging in and doing research u will find many many holes in what the media pushed regarding COVID. That is non debatable. Stop believing everything u hear and think for yourself!

[JuliaSable]

This speaker claims to be a journalist? She gave no specific examples to support her arguments. If you don’t cite evidence or sources, you aren’t modeling better behavior than any opinionated loudmouth on the internet.

She spent the whole time describing the problem and didn’t suggest how to solve it beyond “We need to do the work.”

I care deeply about the misinformation/disinformation problem. I like the sound of the points she’s making. But I’d like it even more if she argued them like a professional journalist.

[best-of-dutch-music]

Dr Faucci the most knowledgeable??? What about your own opinion? seem to have built on some misinformation as well.