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ON the first weekend of June, when we had barely recovered from the spate of toxic disinformation and fake news spawned by the election season, a close friend asked me if the “warning” she got from her Viber group was true. The text follows:MMC is now on skeletal force. 15 doctors are on Covid leave, 17 more are symptomatic and awaiting test results. This does not even include nurses and technicians. So the upswing of stealth omicron variant which my brother in law Dr.
As soon as I forwarded the text to him, he lost no time in sending Makati Medical Center’s official bulletin dated June 4, 2022. It bore the head: “Here we go again [indeed].” Misinformation is “false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead”—Dictionary.com Evaluate, evaluate, evaluate. Learn and practice how to evaluate every text or message you receive. Evaluate and check your source. And if you can trace the source, please do so.
Those who have the time and patience for research may use any of the following fact-checking sites. I only chose three for this article but there are so many choices online depending on your topic. Snopes. An evidence-based source for fact-checking urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation
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