Rumours, Lies and Innuendo Spread Far, Wide and Fast on The Internet

From the picture above, you can see how you can't always believe every news that you read on the internet. Everyone in the world can easily post and spread news on the internet. Nowadays people becoming easy and easier to believe whatever news they got from the internet without checking the truth and just simply spread it out to everyone.

What we’re seeing, more and more, is not so much a pursuit of truthful, fact based, resource-supported content – but instead a heavy emphasis on the “now” – the latest news, the hottest, most popular buzz-worthy content we can get our hands on.

This is the way our society in general is programmed to think – this is the type of content that “sells” and gets people talking. But what we’re seeing is a total blur of what’s truthful and what isn’t – content manufactured simply to create a buzz. And what’s scary is we’re starting to almost not care about honesty – it’s increasingly becoming more about who said it and where they said it. The online world has become one big “who you gonna’ believe?” popularity contest. I want out.

Paraphrasing, Ted Koppel praised the Internet for what it has done and continues to do with the sharing of information, but also criticised it in an almost fearful way, stating that in today’s online world, there’s no way to truly know who these ‘information sharers’ are or what there intent is. We can’t say beyond a shadow of a doubt that what anyone is saying online is true (of course the same can be said for “traditional” media) but it’s much more prevalent in the online world.

(http://www.lifewithoutpants.com/blogging/how-much-do-you-care-about-the-truth/)

Do you often take what is on the Internet as TRUTH with our thinking much about it?


NO!  Why not? I never believe in everything that i read on the internet. When i try to search some information on internet, i'll try to search from more than 5 sources. Even when the website state as the "real" source, i won't believe in everything. There's a lot source that people easily believe in and simply spread the news, and try to make people believe in that news. Sometime, i found it really annoying and just try to not believe on that news.