In the age of lightning-speed communication, it’s more important now than ever to have good media literacy. It’s how you can tell the difference between misinformation and actual facts. Unfortunately, some people are more than happy to click the reshare button without considering what they’re doing.
The @cnviolations account shares some of the most epic moments when community fact-checkers called out misinformation on X (formerly Twitter). Scroll down to see just how shameless some lies on social media can get... and why informative context is so important!
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Fermentation is a 100% natural process. Humans only learned how to control it.
I remember one year some birds got drunk on some fermented piracantha berries at my parent's house. Doesn't this man know fruit NATURALLY ferments?
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elephants get drunk deliberately by eating rooten fruits as well
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Jesus got to a wedding one day and it was boring as f**k and he thought, "I know what would make this better" and he made wine out of water. He basically said, "who the f**k drinks water at a wedding, let's turn up"
He actually performed the miracle out of respect for his mother, who indirectly asked Him to do that.
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A religious preacher embarrasses himself by lack of knowledge of the natural world. Shocker! That has never ever happened before!!
And lack of knowledge of the Bible, too. That never happens, right?
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Apple Cider literally makes its own alcohol on it's own, as do grapes and many fruits.
Bats can hold their liquor too, and also famous monkeys of st kitts
Fallen fruit also turns into alcohol as it rots. Just ask the wild creatures who get drunk on it!
Actually all alcohol is made by microorganisms. That's what femantation is, microorganisms changing sugars into alcohol.
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I have heard religious nuts saying that wine in the bible is grape juice. So convenient THAT'S when they argue a translation issue.
if you wanna get down to it, "god" technically made everything, which means "he/she" made yeast and that is what makes alcohol so ..... even without saying "Jesus turned water into wine" you could state that yes "he/she" made it {I'm not religious, I put "god" as the name since I believe "something" made us, if it's the same one Christians say is "god"... ok, to me "GOD" is a name, not the actual "Presence" of that that created everything, As for me I come from a Buddhist background, practice Wicca, and study Satanism, The names the Presence that made everything is usually called "God/Allah/Jehovah/Yahweh" }
No god has ever made a single thing. Ever. Full stop, end of argument.
I remember this guy from way back and actually worked with him once or twice. He wasn't the sharpest razor then either. BTW He has always had this name ever since I knew him back in the 1980's. Back then he used to be a small time evangelist. Apparently, his ignorance of the bible is second only to his name.
https://www.krugerpark.co.za/krugerpark-times-3-8-elephant-myth-22760.html
Actually all the alcohol is manufactured by industrious microbes, especially yeasts, and they've been doing it since long before humans stepped into the picture.
Did God tell you that personally? Because according to the "Bible"...he let his son turn water into wine...
Animals routinely get drunk from fermented fruits that fall directly from trees.
Oh the ignorance - never heard og animalt getting drunk by eating old fruits?
What an absolute moron. That said, some Baptists and other denominations serve grape juice as communion... and there is no grape juice in the bible. Dolts.
News Alert: Overripe fruits naturally ferment, becoming alcoholic all on their own .
Article on naturally occurring alcohol. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21676715/
A nectar-rich flower falls into a small puddle and a couple of days later an alcoholic drink. Indigenous Australians knew this and by adding extra flowers or native honey could jack it up to over 6% alcohol quite easily.
And the wine was good! Imagine Jesus at a kegger! The fun would never end!
Not to mention the crabapples that fermented every year. The squirrels got drunk on them.
There are literally thousands of events every year where fruits, saps, etc, naturally ferment and become alcoholic. Some elephants get drunk intentionally. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/science/drunk-elephants-genes.html
A sugary fruit that falls on the ground can literally start to ferment all by itself. Also, astronomers have detected gigantic clouds of alcohol out in the cosmos.
That, and the fact ethanol is a natural byproduct of microbial respiration
Nature does make alcohol. There's plenty of different fruits that will ferment on their own without a human doing anything.
also, " Our bodies produce about 3 to 4 grams of alcohol per day. This is equivalent to about ¼ of a standard alcoholic beverage. Alcohol is produced in our gastrointestinal tract through the action of bacteria and fungi (yeasts) as a by-product of carbohydrate metabolism."
Wut?? Animals like monkeys and elephants deliberately get drunk on fruit that has laid on the ground and fermented. The reasons that many herbivores and omnivores can metabolise alcohol (and carnivores can't, hence it's poisonous for them) is precisely so they can safely imbibe that kind of thing.
Example #infinity of "Christians" not actually knowing what's in the Bible. lmao
The oldest known fermented spirit is barley beer, alluded to in 1Samuel. In the first few chapters . . ..
granted the alcoholic beverages back then were probably not as strong since they were using non-selectively bred yeast.
The earth has also never produced a pair of glasses. I'm glad they've been manufactured by fallen men.
I've been binge watching (ok, half listening to) The Universe lately. Several of the scientists on the program have stated that some of the liquids on comets and asteroids are alcoholic. I guess the devil is hedging his bets?
Devil's advocate²: they likewise claim all the liquor was made by fallen men, and I don't think the Bible classified Jesus as one of those.
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As we’ve covered on Bored Panda recently, some people like to believe in conspiracy theories because it gives them a sense of control in a chaotic and confusing world. The scarier and more uncertain a situation is, the more likely that people will cling to theories that, though inaccurate, help them make sense of the world.
Conspiracy theories aren’t backed by evidence. The people who believe in them discount any evidence that doesn’t support them. However, if you’re willing to consider evidence and are open to changing your mind when given solid proof, you’re less likely to fall victim to a conspiracy theory.
It's really sad that people like this exist. Hate just for the sake of hating.
The world doesn’t objectively become a less complicated place because someone chooses to believe simplistic black-or-white narratives. It’s up to us to look for the nuances and embrace them, even if they’re uncomfortable or don’t match our subjective experiences or political leanings.
A good rule of thumb is to be extremely wary of claims that are overly simplistic or have very clear heroes and villains. The world is more complicated than clean and clear fights between perfect good and total evil. That’s why context, provided by reliable sources, matters so much.
I can't believe we have to tell anyone that but here we find ourselves.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the sounds of the vacuum vaginas.
Over 693.6K people follow @cnviolations, aka ‘community notes violating people,’which documents some of the most epic takedowns of misinformation, as done by members of the @communitynotes project—a real program meant to combat lies on X.
The @cnviolations account on X is in no way affiliated with the social network, nor the @communitynotes program. However, indirectly, it shares a lot of comedic moments and also shows to what extent some social media users twist the truth or believe in others’ lies.
The actual Community Notes project has 782.8K followers and describes itself as a collaborative way to add helpful context to posts. This way, everyone using X or reading tweets (or are those called Xs now?) elsewhere, can stay better informed.
Though it’s no panacea, the project does reduce the number of people who are misled. All with the power of helpful notes!
My cousin uses a wheelchair and he used to be able to cross his legs in one. Unfortunately he can't anymore as he has got weaker but he used to
The people who contribute to the Community Notes mission are regular users of the X social network. They sign up to write and rate notes. As the founders of the project point out, “the more people that participate, the better the program becomes.” It’s not like random notes show up on posts all over X, however.
Only notes that are rated helpful by people “from diverse perspectives” appear on posts.
It amazes me what people go through to try to prove their superiority to others rather than accepting everyone is equal. Also access to trading platforms have greatly increased along with access to relevant data. Further, calculators that actually do this type of alleged math actually exist. I had one in high school in the mid 90s
Most sharks need to have water passing through their gills to breathe, they must be in constant motion. Can we stop pulling them out of their home.
“To identify notes that are helpful to a wide range of people, notes require agreement between contributors who have sometimes disagreed in their past ratings. This helps prevent one-sided ratings,” the Community Notes team explains in detail.
They believe that it’s vital to give X users a voice in providing informative, diverse context to posts on the network.
One of the fundamental values of Community Notes is transparency. “All contributions are published daily, and our ranking algorithm can be inspected by anyone,” the founders point out that anyone is able to see how things work “under the hood.” It’s nice to see that they’re staying consistent on the importance of openness in everything that they do.
Didn't he also start beef with Disney and was surprised they took action against him?
Says someone who once identified as Korean despite being British, and having lived in Korea for ONE YEAR. Now professional sucker-upper and spewer of right wing talking points...
Any contributor can suggest a note on any post. Other contributors then rate those notes. However, it’s not a popularity contest by any means. “Because notes need to genuinely be found helpful by people who tend to disagree, the program is more likely to identify notes that many people find helpful.”
One question that X users have is whether other users can be trusted to add context to other people’s posts.
“We believe regular people can valuably contribute to identifying and adding helpful context to potentially misleading information. Many of the internet’s existing collaborative sites thrive with the help of non-expert contributions—Wikipedia, for example—and, while it’s not a cure-all, research has shown the potential of incorporating crowdsourced-based approaches as part of a broader toolkit to address misleading information on the internet,” the Community Notes team explains.
According to surveys conducted by the project, people were 20 to 40% less likely to agree with potentially misleading posts if they could read a note attached to them.
Which of these misinfo takedowns impressed you the most? Which ones made you giggle? What’s your personal relationship with X been like after it changed its name from Twitter? Share your thoughts and experiences in the comment section after you’ve enjoyed this list to the fullest, dear Pandas.
I always washed my turtle's shell from above and below with a soft toothbrush and warm water. This is common, but of course the turtle doesn't like it. A turtle needs a clean shell because it produces vitamins from sunlight. If you don't clean the shell and dirt, moss or algae forms on the shell, the turtle can die.
You would think he didn't have access to the Internet and how to use Google.
Also trauma! Bug infestations of any sort can cause trauma, but bedbugs in particular are prone to causing it due to the physical and mental toll they take.
the name of the account of OP should tell everything one need to know about the factual correctness of this s**t!
At first I read it as “demonize”. That can be an option too I guess.
Reader added context: if you see anything claiming that a young woman is allowed to be a high-ranking politician in Japan, fact check it immediately lmao
Uber is a scam. They claim they are a service to hook up private citizens, but control everything including what can be charged. And at the same time try to convince governments and such that these people aren't their employees so that they don't have to pay for their benefits. This is how you take an already low paying job in a lot of areas (taxi driver) and ring out money from it to make a few people rich. Another thing I don't understand is that if you ask people these days if they would hitch a ride and they will tell you that no way they would get into a stranger's car.
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From the comments here, I can tell that a lot more people then me on here watch Matt Rose...
Some of these are good, some of these are not. Just cause the majority says a thing doesn't mean that thing is correct. Just look at the majority of politicians saying it's okay to genocide the gaza strip.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. It was really sickening to hear the politicians say "all of them" in response to a question of "how many dead Palestinians are enough?".
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If I ever learn anything from this website it is this. Keep your fat ignorant mouth shut or face consequences.
From the comments here, I can tell that a lot more people then me on here watch Matt Rose...
Some of these are good, some of these are not. Just cause the majority says a thing doesn't mean that thing is correct. Just look at the majority of politicians saying it's okay to genocide the gaza strip.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. It was really sickening to hear the politicians say "all of them" in response to a question of "how many dead Palestinians are enough?".
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