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Empowering Critical Thinking
in 2024
As we step into 2024, The World certain trusted sources alternative to
Economic Forum’s Global Risks mainstream media.
Report highlights a critical concern:
the rising tide of misinformation and The manipulation of information
disinformation. Understanding these sources leads us to the question: Who
terms is essential: Disinformation is defines truth, and thus disinformation,
deliberately misleading information and misinformation? If truth is indeed
(could be propagated by governments), the first casualty in war, as Aeschylus
while misinformation is misleading noted more than 2000 years ago, are we
information that is generally spread unwittingly caught in an information
without malicious intent. war? And if so, against whom?
In a world brimming with diverse events, Today, I wanted to draw your attention
opinions, agendas, and information to a widely used digital encyclopedia,
sources, finding truth becomes Wikipedia.
increasingly challenging. The pandemic’s
coverage by various media outlets has Traditionally, encyclopedias are viewed
highlighted this, steering us towards as reservoirs of unbiased knowledge.
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