Tag: fake news

• For Holocaust Remembrance Day, I Watched a Friend Fall for QAnon and into Anti-Semitism

  

  Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of when Auschwitz was liberated and the horror of the Holocaust began to truly reveal itself to the world. Instead of sharing the usual photos of emaciated bodies behind barbed wire and spouting #NeverForget hashtags, I want to offer a personal story—one that’s much more recent and…

  Shari Lopatin

  January 27, 2021

  Current Events (and stuff), Personal Posts, Social Issues

  anti-Semitism, Capitol Insurrection, conspiracy theories, cults, current events, fake news, genocide, Genocide Watch, Holocaust Remembrance, QAnon

• 4 Ways to Tell if Information is Real or Fake: Advice from a Former Journalist

  

  When I was a daily newspaper reporter, I always had to navigate through multiple versions of a story before I learned what really happened. We have a saying in journalism. It goes, “There are three sides to every story: side one, side two, and the Truth.” The Truth usually falls somewhere between the first two…

  Shari Lopatin

  May 13, 2020

  Current Events (and stuff), Social Issues

  blogging, commentary, Coronavirus, current events, fake news, Internet, journalism, media, misinformation, news, pandemic, Plandemic, socialmedia, technology, truth, Writing

• 4 Ways YOU Can Avoid Russian Influence in the Next U.S. Election

  As a former newspaper reporter, and with the recent 13 indictments of Russian nationals who infiltrated our political system during the 2016 U.S. elections, I’d like to offer some advice on how YOU can personally avoid Russian influence during the 2018 U.S. mid-terms. In case you haven’t heard, the FBI warned they would most likely…

  Shari Lopatin

  February 20, 2018

  Current Events (and stuff), Social Issues

  American politics, current events, fake news, news, news stories, politics, propaganda, Russian indictments, Russian influence, U.S. elections, voting