Christian Apologetics Resources
Week 12 – Fake News
Week 12 – Fake News
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Synopsis
What can you do when you no longer trust your “trusted” news sources? How do you have honest discussions when no one agrees on the facts? God is the source of truth, and He provides us a way to discern truth from falsehoods.
Further Study
Media Bias
- Ground News: Stories disproportionately covered by one side of the political spectrum
- Should Christians Follow the News? - What Would You Say
- Google News’ bias skewed even further left in 2023 — 63% from liberal media sources, only 6% from the right: analysis
- The Real War on Science | The City Journal | Political Magazine
- Media Bias Chart | AllSides
- Media Bias/Fact Check - Search and Learn the Bias of News Media
- Opinion | The Six Forms of Media Bias - The New York Times
- This chart will tell you how biased your favorite news source is - Big Think
- Know the Reliability and Bias of the News: Home of the Media Bias Chart®
Media Influence
Are Conservative or Liberal Media Outlets More Popular? | AllSidesFake News
- EVERY Kamala Harris LIE DEBUNKED From ABC News Debate! - YouTube
- (17437) [Mirror] Video Talkies - My Family Raped Me - YouTube
Online Search
Misinformation
Propaganda
- How Brands Use Design & Marketing to Control Your Mind
- Eastern & Western Design: How Culture Rewires The Brain
- DoubleSpeak, How to Lie without Lying
- Doublespeak: manipulation through language | Tornike Shetekauri | TEDxYouth@TbilisiGreenSchool
- 21 Mind Traps : The Ultimate Guide to your most common Thinking errors
- 6 unethical Psychological tricks that should be illegal //Robert Cialdini - PRE - suasion
Types of Lies
- The 15 types of lies (and how to identify them) - HealthyMortel
- 25 Different Types of Lies: Understanding Deception and How People Mislead - HubPage
- Misnomers in politics are a problem due to misconceptions of the political spectrum. | UCF Knights fan forums - UCFSports
Fact Checking
- Fact Check Bias Chart | AllSides
- Zebra Fact Check - An independent experimental fact-checking site, exploring and advocating ways to make fact-checking better.
- The battle to nudge the International Fact-Checking Network toward transparency and accountability - Zebra Fact Check
- List of fact-checking websites - Wikipedia
- Global Fact 11: Fact-checking supports free speech, not censorship - VERA Files
- Is There Recourse When Fact Checkers Get It Wrong? | RealClearPolitics
- Secret emails prove Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fact checking program has been compromised by activists | Sky News Australia
- A Contextual Inquiry of The International Fact-Checking Network and Factuality on Social Media
- Full article: Purposes, Principles, and Difficulties of Fact-checking in Ibero-America: Journalists’ Perceptions
Conspiracy Theory
- A critical conceptualization of conspiracy theory
- Conspiracy Theories
- Conspiracy Theory: The Nineteenth-Century Prehistory of a Twentieth-Century Concept
- Understanding Conspiracy Theories
Artificial Intelligence
- The Promises and Perils of Artificial Intelligence
- ‘Absurdly woke’: Google’s AI chatbot spits out ‘diverse’ images of Founding Fathers, popes, Vikings
- AI Companies Are Getting the Culture War They Deserve
- The absolute state of Google's Gemini AI. It's wokeness knows no bounds.
- Google halts AI tool’s ability to produce images of people after backlash
- Google CEO calls Gemini AI bias 'totally unacceptable' | Fortune
- Google apologizes for ahistorical and inaccurate Gemini AI images: ‘We missed the mark’
Deep Fakes
- Haters will say this is AI
- Social Media & Threats
- https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
- ThesisAI
- AI-generated faces
- AI-generated or Real?
- Lip Sync Feature for AI-Generated Characters to Speak
- Teaser -- Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio
- Teaser -- Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio
Deep Fake Countermeasures
- Algorithms can be useful in detecting fake news, stopping its spread and countering misinformation
- Detecting fake news and disinformation using artificial intelligence and machine learning to avoid supply chain disruptions | Annals of Operations Research
- GitHub - sfu-discourse-lab/MisInfoText: Datasets for fake news and misinformation detection