497 sats \ 4 replies \ @JuanMiguel 25 Jan \ parent \ on: A Field Guide to Dubious Fact-Checking culture
I usually assume something is false/lie until i can prove otherwise. Specially if it's comming from main stream media, big tech, government and leftists.
Several years ago, in my 20's years it was my priciple to trust everyone (especially in peoples) until won't prove otherwise. This was functional some years, but I finally had to admit it that is not a very good "strategy", because I was disappointed many times (sometimes by peoples in whom I believed the most).
After this period, I changed my philosophy, and started to use your strategy (false until the opposite is proven), but using this "model" I missed a lot of opportunities in my life (between which the Bitcoin in extremely early phase - 2010-2011).
And finally...some years ago I started to "mix" these 2 visions, looking carefully between possibilities / informations. I can tell you, it is much more OK my life than before (of course, it is just my personal opinion and experience).
I think the essence is to be attentive and very careful.
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It's like we're twins.
When I was younger, I had exactly the approach. If I didn't already have conflicting information, I would trust what people said. Now I consider the reliability and incentives of the messenger pretty heavily.
With age, I've become much more comfortable saying "That's what I've heard, but I really don't know."
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I don't like to assume it's false, because that still gives them the power to drive my views. I try to just give it very little weight, until I can confirm it with a source I trust.
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very little weight
Or this. 👍
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