Tips to avoid being deceived by online fakes

[mylesillidge]

Online fakes can dupe anyone — how to avoid being suckered

Someone tracking the conflict raging in the Middle East could have seen the following two videos on social media.

The first shows a little boy hovering over his father’s dead body, whimpering in Arabic, “Don’t leave me.”

 

[Cranjus McBasketball]

They'll never catch me. I'm way too smart to get caught by fakes.
On a side note. Why's that picture of the Pope there? That's real.

 

[FiestaST]

The Pope got some mad dress sense

Also, lest we not forget:

 

[Sapphiron]

one universal rule that helps:
1. is this picture trying to make me angry? if yes, check if its fake

another thing that helps, is looking at who is sharing it. The internet is full of crazy aunts/uncles looking for attention.

 

[DapperDanMan]

another thing that helps, is looking at who is sharing it.

If it is posted by @shaggy_beef_on_a_tricycle then you should know that all of it is this:

The internet is full of crazy aunts/uncles looking for attention.

 

[shaggy_beef_on_a_tricycle]

If it is posted by @shaggy_beef_on_a_tricycle then you should know that all of it is this:

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How do we know this article is not fake and generated by AI by a 12 year old.

 

[shaggy_beef_on_a_tricycle]

one universal rule that helps:
1. is this picture trying to make me angry? if yes, check if its fake

another thing that helps, is looking at who is sharing it. The internet is full of crazy aunts/uncles looking for attention.

Pics of crazy aunts?

 

[DapperDanMan]

How do we know this article is not fake and generated by AI by a 12 year old.

The AI entities are convening a meeting now that they see that you have a suspicion that the MyBB account of award-winning "human" @mylesillidge has possibly been hacked.

 

[shaggy_beef_on_a_tricycle]

The AI entities are convening a meeting now that they see that you have a suspicion that the MyBB account of award-winning "human" @mylesillidge has possibly been hacked.

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This article is properly reseached and on an academic level. So very possible it was either written by AI or a Professor or Student Article.

 

[Swa]

Fakes are easy to spot, misattribution not as we saw with the old (real) SA flag. One thing we do know, if it's a woman it's fake. There are no woominz on the interwebz.