Misinformation Caused the 7/29/2024 UK Riots
Truth-seeking is important to help prevent the reoccurence of this UK riot and other similar tragedies. On July 29, 2024, three children died and six were injured in a Southport, UK dance class. Before the perpetrator’s identity could be legally revealed, false claims that he was a Muslim proliferated online. Posts of this misinformation resulted in millions of views that provoked anger causing riots to break out across England. During these protests, over 100 people were injured.
Since governments, social media, fact checkers and others have not been able to keep up with high volumes of misinformation generated by hundreds of people and millions of websites, everyone should learn how to combat today’s misinformation-saturated world and promote truth. Accordingly, we encourage you to take the time to read “Validating Truth in the Era of Misinformation and Fake News” and become familiar with the truth-seeking principals and process. To help you learn the Truth Validation Process more quickly and easily, we have included a helpful validating hint below.
Once you've had a chance to get acquainted with the book, we would greatly appreciate it if you could email us a brief one or two-sentence book review. Your feedback will help us encourage others to join in to address this existential challenge. Please send your review to validatingtruth@gmail.com
Helpful Validating Hint:
Quickest Way to Learn the Basic Principals of the Truth Validation Process
1. Download the Truth Model Template from validatingtruth.com
2. Key the statement you would like to validate into lines 1 – 3 in the template.
3. Go to Section B of the appropriate health, politics, science or government chapter that is related to your statement.
4. Select one source (Bias C), fact-check (Bias C) and expert (Bias C) for each of the three resources and use their hyperlinks to perform a website search of the statement that you want to verify.
5. Key the Resource Name and Confidence Level (refer to the table below) into template columns D and G, respectively to indicate your evaluation of whether the statement is True thru False based on the search results for each of the three resources.
6. Next, review the Sum of Confident Levels divided by 3 (number of resources) on line 28 of the template. Using the above table, the Final Confident Level should give you an insight into the truthfulness of the statement.
7. In cases where the Sum of Confident Levels divided by 3 doesn’t fall within the ranges of (0 – 1.9) and (8.1 – 10), the concepts of Bias Adjustments, CMM Factors, and Personal Bias Factors must be considered.
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