{"id":1362,"date":"2020-01-10T16:56:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T21:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2020-03-06T20:35:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T01:35:39","slug":"the-truth-crisis-how-to-spot-fake-images-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/the-truth-crisis-how-to-spot-fake-images-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth Crisis: How to spot fake images on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an op-ed for\u00a0<em>The Dallas Morning News<\/em>\u00a0this past November: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2019\/11\/16\/thanks-to-social-media-we-are-in-a-truth-crisis\/\">Thanks to social media, we are in a truth crisis.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about this Truth Crisis a lot lately. How did we get so far gone on social media where we believe whatever is posted on our news feeds. This episode explains simple ways to start being more aware of images and their origin.<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p>Become an advocate for the truth.<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\r\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dr-janet-johnson\/embed\/episodes\/The-Truth-Crisis-How-to-spot-fake-images-on-social-media-ea3nra\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an op-ed for\u00a0The Dallas Morning News\u00a0this past November: Thanks to social media, we are in a truth crisis. I&#8217;ve been thinking about this Truth Crisis a lot lately. How did we get so far gone on social media where we believe whatever is posted on our news feeds. This episode explains simple ways to start being more aware of images and their origin. Become an advocate for the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,166,177,29,167,176],"tags":[236,238,237,239,154,235],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-media-literacy","category-podcast","category-social-media","category-social-media-literacy","category-tea-with-dr-j","tag-fact-checking","tag-fake-images","tag-fake-news","tag-gatekeepers","tag-journalism","tag-truth","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}