Introduction
It can be overwhelming these days to watch the news channels whether it is public news, business news or the insider news – there are so much information thrown in to your face that you either generally get overwhelmed or miss the important stuff relevant for your personal well-being or the important relevant for your business.
Having all this information available in front of you it will require some competences in being able to sort out the relevant from the non-relevant and then again to prioritize what to read first.
In college during the 1980s (before the Internet) we were taught to be critical to the news and how we could verify the source before we would share/ discuss/ trust the news.
This kind of skill set happens to be more important than ever these days, but which source to trust?
Just picking a few areas which I find have values for each of us:
- Information about potential/ documented foreign interfering in the US elections pointing in each direction, either “true” or “fake news”
- Customer data including personal details being stolen and published on-line by the ransomware operators
- Payment Card information stolen from the service handling your payments when purchasing from a Web-shop (e-commerce website)…
- Data “stolen” from a non-protected database containing enough personal data to clone you (pretend to be you on-line while buying/ commenting/ and so forth)…
- Attacked organizations stating no personal data of value were stolen…
- AI has been dubbed both “the most impactful invention” and our “biggest existential threat”
- YouTube being the source for feeding conspirational theories in to the public
- What is 5G really giving us in terms of benefits vs challenges to health?
- Who benefits from the war in Ukraine?
- Why is this website: We Are Not Sam only available in the search engine but not live?
All this leads to the question: Who, what and which source can I as an individual person trust?
I have noticed David Sable using this tag: #thinkbeforeyoushare at LinkedIn – maybe we should change our general behaviour to first share tomorrow?
On the other hand how can we then warn other people, when there is a live campaign from a fake Microsoft Support Team calling you in order to get access to your computer or a fake payment service calling you to conform your credit card details?
In my opinion you only agree with the message provided via the individual post.
I believe this behaviour will have a long term positive impact: read, reflect, take a deep breath, read again, give the content some thoughts like “Would I personally stand up for this content in terms of trust, credibility and message?” and then press the button either it’s 👍 ❤ 👏 💡 or 🤔
It is always my intention to follow this simple guidance, but being human sometimes I fail and press the button before thinking…
Please feel free to share in the event you are confident in me as a source 😉
This article was published initially on LinkedIn on March 2, 2020. I have made some adjustments to the content in this version.
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