How much misinformation can you find?
Our chapter reading this week, while focusing mostly on fallacies, also deals with political misinformation, or lies if you will. It does so by cluing us in to the website PolitiFact.com
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. At this site, the Tampa Bay Times fact checks statements made by politicians and rates those statements using its "Truth-O-Meter." Comments range from True to False and degrees in between. It also gives the "Pants on Fire" award to those statements that are "outrageously false." This is a site everyone can benefit from.
For the discussion this week, put your political leanings aside, and discuss five misleading statements that you find from the site. How do you think about being lied to like this? What do you plan to do about it?