Where Does the Truth Lie
at the very beginning i would like to
ask you something
what was the last news you have heard
read or saw
did you like it did you question it now
just keep the news on the back of your
mind we’ll come back to
it later we live in a world
full of disagreement the society divides
itself
every day and the scariest part is that
some of us
don’t even notice people stopped
believing in institutions and in
authorities
once i had a conversation with someone
who has
different worldviews than i do and i
notice that we have
different information on the same
situation that i was sure i know a lot
about
how did it happen that we need to check
so many sources
to justify one piece of information
people don’t believe in reality if they
don’t even know what is real
it’s horrifying the topic i have chosen
for my speech
is where does the truth lie
at first i would like to concentrate on
the term truth truth was
always a hard concept for me since i was
a little kid i was
always thinking what is the truth or how
can we find the purest form of truth
it was hard to for me to know what is
truth
if i don’t even know what happened in
every nanosecond of the situation
so what is true and what is not as i
grew up i started to define truth
as something that is not fake and this
definition
can be problematic because i’m not
looking for the truth anymore i’m
looking
for fake and that’s
terrifying so what’s the difference
between looking for truth and looking
for fake
if we live in this reality where we
don’t even know what is real or what is
not
it is easier to look for something that
is not real
instead of looking for something that is
real
and i was trying to find a solution to
this problem i was trying to find a
solution to the problem how to find the
purest truth
and then i realized that sometimes it’s
not about finding a solution it’s about
finding a cause
of this problem so what about fake news
fake news is nothing new it has been
around misinformation and lies has been
around for years
hundreds of years even thousands of
years so what has changed the scale has
changed
internet gave people possibility to get
to know other cultures to communicate
all around the world but it also gave a
possibility
to spread fake news more easily
faster and worldwide
and the problem is not even internet
being a great medium to
spread fake news but social media
and internet algorithms and our
advertising
that helps fake news spreading fast
even faster these algorithms
analyze the data to see what will the
particular user
like the most what will he or she click
on
it’s scary because our phone sometimes
knows too much about us our computer
knows too much about us
and it is all fun until we’re starting
to be vegan
and we see all those vegan recipes on
pinterest and
other social media platform because we
can we know just
how to cook more tastier food that is
vegan
or if we’re reading an article about red
dresses that are trending this season
we see all the advertisement about red
dresses where to buy them
cheaper than the ones in article but
similar
we’re trendy every time we read an
article
online i’m sure everyone has read an
article online
we see something like if you like this
you should also
see this if you’re interested in this
you should also read this
it’s scary because they are
trying to put us in some box they are
trying to advertise things to us
and we don’t even know know that they
are doing it
so internet and its algorithms
are fun despite the fact that our phones
knows and computer knows so much about
us
we can have more vegan recipes or
red dresses but then
you can see that it can change your
whole life your political views
for example if you’re reading an article
from more conservative website
it will show you more articles that you
may like because you’re interested in
because there’s advertising because
there’s money from it
it will show you more and more and then
it will put you into a box a box
that when you’re in the box it’s really
hard to get out of the box
and you can’t recognize what is true and
what is not
they put you in the box and then they
start to promote
social media you have
promotions on social media feed there
will be similar to the ones that you’re
reading about
that you may like they will give you
some conspiracy
theories you may like but the problem is
that at some point people
will stop to know what is true
and what is a lie
34 percent of northern americans
trust social media 34 it’s it’s not a
lot
only 65 trusts traditional media
26 of north american society
recognize fake news what does it mean it
means that 74 percent
of northern american society does not
even recognize
what is truth what is true and what is a
lie
on the internet 74
of society who doesn’t know how to
recognize this
right now we’re facing global epidemics
of coronavirus
and fake news of course but of corona
virus during which
74 of society was worried
about spreading fake news some people
thought coronavirus is a fake news
some refused to wear masks
putting others life in danger because
they thought it was
fake news how can we live in this
reality
when we don’t know what is true we don’t
know what is real
and we think some and sometimes we can
think
that everything is a fake news even
though it’s not
how can we find where does the truth lie
the solution i’m always
fan of is education we can educate
people
and teach them how to tell the
difference between fake news
and facts spreading our awareness about
the algorithms
will make people check everything they
read
they read in the internet and
distinguish reliable sources
from the shady one the important thing
to me personally
is to treat most of what we read with
uncertainty
and not too serious believing blindly
everything on the internet makes people
not only trust fake news
but spread fake news one of the major
lesson to learn is to never share
anything
on the internet if we’re not sure if
it’s true
once we know it is a fake news we can
share it
and say out loud it is a fake news
please do not share it the complete
freedom
of the internet has given us led to
the loss of trust in reality the
best thing we can do right now is to
fight it with our knowledge
now please come back to the news i asked
you to keep in the back of your head
did you question it did you really check
if it’s true
did you blindly believe the internet or
social media
thank you