{"id":599,"date":"2021-01-13T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T11:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/?p=599"},"modified":"2021-01-13T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T11:53:32","slug":"check-your-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/2021\/01\/13\/check-your-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Check your facts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are ever suspicious of information flying around social media, you should always do your own research to see if it is true or not. A great site to use is\u00a0Snopes<\/a>, which describes itself as “the internet’s definitive fact-checking resource”. Snopes uses a range of ratings against each fact checked, including true, mostly true, false, mostly false and scam, as describing a nuanced topic with one word is not always accurate. The site is often referenced by news media and is considered to be trustworthy.<\/p>\n

Have a look at the “what’s new” and “hot 50” to see the latest information to be verified, or check @snopes on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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If you are ever suspicious of information flying around social media, you should always do your own research to see if it is true or not. A great site to use is\u00a0Snopes, which describes itself as “the internet’s definitive fact-checking … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,91],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fact-checking","tag-information"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}