So it's always important to look at the origin of the video. It's that people don't have time to fact-check everything they see on social media. And for someone who's more inclined to believe in conspiracies and misinformation, they won't look in - or research if it's real.īut it's not an issue of, like, people not believing it. We don't really take the time to know where the posts originated and what year. Is there a way that we can know which images are real and which are fake?ĬOSME TORRES: The thing with memes and old videos resurfacing is oftentimes when people browse through social media, it's pretty casually and passively, meaning that even if it's the same video of the shark that reappeared in 2016, like, people don't take the time to realize that it's old. In a few memes, we see alligators wading in floodwaters inside people's homes. It shows what seems to be a baby shark swimming along a Florida highway. There's this video circulating on the internet. MARTIN: I'd like to start off by asking about some of the things that we've seen online. LESLEY COSME TORRES: Yeah, thanks so much for having me. She is a reporter who reports on misinformation and disinformation in Spanish for The Miami Herald. MARTIN: To talk about these meme scams and misinformation, we're joined now by Lesley Cosme Torres. Unfortunately, when you have disasters, there are some people that want to prey on people when they're in vulnerable situations, and we do not want that. RON DESANTIS: And it just hasn't worked out well in the past in Florida. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has specifically warned residents across the state to be on the lookout against potential financial scams that often seem to follow the paths of disasters. But there are also many spreading lies and misinformation. And some of them are bizarre, and some of them are even funny. Along with videos of sharks swimming in the streets, memes have exploded on social media. As in any other moment of crisis, many of us have taken to the internet to try to understand or process the scale of the destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Ian.
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