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Think before you click: staying safe on social media

However, you can take a few simple precautions to keep yourself and your friends and family safe on social media. Here’s how.

First, always use the strongest privacy settings you can. Check the Settings section of your social media profile and make sure what you’re posting can only be seen by your friends.

Second, think about what you post before you post it. It’s easy for people to misunderstand a joke or a fun meme, especially with billions of people out there who might see it. It’s easy to avoid this, though. Think of your social media as your outfit: there are some things you wouldn’t wear in public because people would laugh or think it wasn’t a good choice.

Finally, check out our infographic on social media safety to arm yourself with more helpful tips.

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Think Before You Click (How social media affect our lives)

Think before you click!

Stop, think... should i click.

The concept of "think before you click" is actually one of the most important factors in terms of information security.

When you receive an email, download a file(s) from the internet, or click on a link, think of the following:

• Is the email genuine, such as source address, spelling and context?
• Is this file(s) from a trustworthy source? 
• Is the link legitimate, such as the destination of the URL?

Here are five easy rules to protect your information:

• Never disclose security details, such as your account credentials and security questions
• Don’t assume an email, text or phone call is authentic. Use the internet to confirm contact details if required
• Don’t be rushed. A genuine organisation won’t mind waiting
• Listen to your instincts. You know if something doesn’t feel right
• Stay in control. Don’t panic and make a decision you’ll regret.

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Why We Need To Think Before We Click – Examples Scenarios

Here are some examples of why we need to think before we click.

WE NEED TO THINK – There are several reasons why we need to think before we click anything on the internet.

Because of the internet, there are virtually no limitations to what we could do. Furthermore, there’s an endless ocean of information and content that we can devour.

However, we need to realize that despite all the positives the internet brings, there are some serious negative impacts. As such, among the things that we need to look out for is our privacy.

Thinking Before we click reminds us that internet safety is of the utmost importance. The saying is designed to protect teens from overexposing themselves online, especially on social media.

After uploading a picture online, if it’s public, then you’ve basically lost control over it. It could be downloaded, manipulated, and shared without context and consent.

Because of this, we need to think about what we upload on the web. But, thinking about what we download is also important.

For example, when we want to download something from the internet, we need to make sure that it is safe. There’s a lot of viruses and malware online.

Once it has infected your computer, hackers can potentially go through your system, steal personal information, or try to blackmail you.

That’s why it is empirical that we keep ourselves protected when using the internet. And, the best way of doing so is to think before we click.

Thanks for reading. We aim to provide our readers with the freshest and most in-demand content. Come back next time for the latest news here on Philnews.

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Knowing Your Source: Think Before You Click

By: CMFR Staff

Posted on: October 4, 2016, 3:41 pm

Updated on: January 3, 2017, 9:18 am

THINK BEFORE you click. You may be sharing propaganda as truth—and thus, helping to dumb down people who access the Internet and social media.

The Internet, as a wide and open platform, provides space for a vast number of websites of dubious reliability, which are nevertheless, widely quoted  and  used as sources of information to spread propaganda or any social or political organization, including the government.  There are many who assume that whatever appears on the Net must be true. The “information” they provide is shared in different social media platforms, especially on Facebook, without verifying through other sources whether it is accurate or not.

Fake websites

Since it is easy to create a website with content management systems like WordPress and Blogger, the number of sites providing news and information has increased. Websites have sprouted with outright biases for political parties and politicians or for a clear and acknowledged advocacy for a cause. Sites that aggregate—or collect and repost– news from other news sources without checking its accuracy are also on the rise.

A huge number of websites present themselves as “news providers.”  But these do not always produce their  own content.  A majority of these draw their stories from trending and viral posts in the Internet. One example is the Aug. 26 post from President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign spokesperson Peter Laviña of a photo of a  nine-year-old girl who was supposedly  raped and murdered somewhere in the Philippines.

Laviña said in his post that “We haven’t heard condemning (sic) this brutal act from human rightists, bishops and ‘presstitutes’ who are derailing the government’s war against drugs and crime.” The posts garnered 4,600 likes in Laviña’s Timeline alone; shared 5,000 times by other Facebook users and was reported by online news sites.

The photo was a hit in that sense– only to be debunked by Filipino journalists Froilan Gallardo and Inday Espina-Varona, who found a link that revealed that the incident happened in Brazil, not the Philippines. Clearly, the Laviña post was propaganda based on false information and  meant to provoke anger against human rights activists, the religious, and members of the press critical of the government’s war on drugs.

CMFR tried to track online trending news websites ( Trend Titan , News Info Learn , Public Trending , News Today , Politiko.com among others) that carried Laviña’s post and found that the news article has not been removed or edited despite its having been proven to be false. This raises questions about the credibility of these websites and the capacity of social media users who share them to identify what’s reliable and what’s not.

CMFR listed the following criteria which should warn Internet users about the reliability of their content:

No Identification

Fake news sites are designed like legitimate sources of news. They are presented to be legitimate news providers, employing trained and credentialed reporters, with articles that are vet-ed by editors, imposing a fact- and –context checking process.

One quick way of checking the legitimacy of the news is a website is the editorial information about the providers.  The “About Us,” “Contact Us” page of websites contains information about the site’s editorial team and staff, the physical address, telephone number, email address, its history, and other important information.  As in mainstream news, these websites list the names of persons who are accountable for the content it holds.

A news website should be accountable for what is posted on its page, and it starts with identifying the people behind it, as well as how they can be contacted so they can be asked to explain errors posted in their sites, among others. These are set apart from bloggers. They do not choose anonymity and like their counterparts in the mainstream are answerable to the public.

These should be differentiated from bloggers who write opinion pieces. Bloggers may choose to write under a “psyeudonym” for whatever reason. These do not pretend to provide news content about events and developments to inform people about current public affairs. They are expressing what they think. Their political opinions should be regarded as columns and readers can agree or disagree with them. In journalism however, commentary should be based on factual information.

Unverified Aggregation

Websites which present news from through aggregated content do so without checking whether these are true or not.  The practice exerts no effort to verify the sources or the process by which the report is produced. Content aggregators and curators scour the net for interesting content and share it with the Internet and social media community. Websites which aggregate and curate content nowadays do not only share content; they also create their own reports from other news sources. These often do not verify information prior to quoting a news article, hence the possibility that they’re spreading falsehood. Another practice is to pull out a factual report from mainstream news sources and to “spin it”—giving it an entirely new meaning.

Users of such websites should check whether the website shows any kind of information about who is doing the aggregation. If there is no information about the producers of the content, then what they offer should not be taken as editorially processed news.

Article Submission News Sites

These news websites invite the public to contribute content. Anyone is welcome to send articles, videos or photos to be posted on the website regardless of its being biased, and whether it’s a public relations piece or downright propaganda.  These do not satisfy any journalistic criteria and should be dismissed as a news source.

News Trending Sites

Generally, these sites pick up selectively from viral and trending posts in the internet. No other criteria  govern the selection. If the content has gained a significant amount of following, it is included, the only purpose for that use is to be hooked on to the “viral.”

Some of these sites provide an excuse from possible errors, warning users with a disclaimer that their content has not been verified and is likely to be unreliable.

Satirical Websites

Satire uses “humor, irony, exaggeration and ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity, or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.” It is applied in various literary forms, essays, editorials, drama, plays and film. Satire makes fun. It creates fictional characters and situations to render more sharply the folly and error involved in the subject of the satire, without reference to the actual public figures, actions or developments bein g satirized. While the work itself is fictional, like all great literature, good satire actually shows up and exposes ‘truth.”

Its more contemporary forms are the spoof or send-up. All done in the spirit of fun, satire succeeds as sharply critical of the subject.

Material from satirical websites, the content of which is often taken literally by those who access them, despite tag lines and disclaimers that proclaim that they are satirical, or are meant to spoof or make fun of ideas, events and individuals, are also often used and reposted as if the content is factually true.

Many Filipino social media users cannot distinguish truth from satire. A Rappler Move.PH article “ Why can’t many Filipinos tell truth from satire? ” by Rappler Social Media producer Marguerite de Leon points out that while other cultures have a ready understanding and appreciation for satire, this is not generally true in the Philippines. The article pointed out that “It’s possible, through a flawed educational system, that many Filipinos were not taught to think critically enough. And if you can’t think critically enough, grasping satire may be more difficult than it should be.”

CMFR also compiled a list of some of the satirical websites in the Philippines:

•     https://adobochronicles.com/
•     http://eritastimes.com/
•     https://sowhatsnews.wordpress.com/
•     http://mosquitopress.tumblr.com/
•     https://agilanews.wordpress.com/

Think Before You Click

The Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA) noted that in 2015, the Philippines had the 2nd highest number of Internet users in Southeast Asia and was 6th in all of Asia with 44.2 million users. Ninety-four (94) percent of these numbers have social media accounts which they use to share news and information. This 94 percent can be influential in shaping the international image of the Philippines among people from other countries who access social media.  What’s as important, they also multiply possible errors among themselves and the rest of the Philippine Internet community by reposting and sharing flawed information.

It is important to read and be critical of material posted in certain sites before actually liking or sharing them on Facebook or Twitter. Sharing misinformation through social media can actually lead to the dumbing down of large numbers of people, and contribute to the further deterioration of democratic discourse.

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