Fake news: qui distingue les faits des opinions? (Pew Research Center)

Des chiffres qui m'inquiètent dans ce récent coup de sonde du Pew Research Center. J'en parle souvent lors de mes interventions dans médias parce que nous vivons à l'ère des réseaux sociaux et de l'opinion instantanée. Qui, dans sa vie quotidienne, prend le temps de valider les informations qu'on leur présente et de quelle manière? C'est mon travail d'analyser et commenter la politique américaine et parfois je suis étourdi par la quantité de faits à vérifier.

 Il semble que chez nos voisins du sud faits et opinions puissent être confondues...  Et on s'étonne de la popularité de Donald Trump? Un remède? Les enseignants et les analystes peuvent contribuer à développer des compétences de recherche. Ça ne règle pas tout, mais ce serait déjà une avancée intéressante.

 "The findings from the survey, conducted between Feb. 22 and March 8, 2018, reveal that even this basic task presents a challenge. The main portion of the study, which measured the public’s ability to distinguish between five factual statements and five opinion statements, found that a majority of Americans correctly identified at least three of the five statements in each set. But this result is only a little better than random guesses. Far fewer Americans got all five correct, and roughly a quarter got most or all wrong. Even more revealing is that certain Americans do far better at parsing through this content than others. Those with high political awareness, those who are very digitally savvy and those who place high levels of trust in the news media are better able than others to accurately identify news-related statements as factual or opinion.

 For example, 36% of Americans with high levels of political awareness (those who are knowledgeable about politics and regularly get political news) correctly identified all five factual news statements, compared with about half as many (17%) of those with low political awareness. Similarly, 44% of the very digitally savvy (those who are highly confident in using digital devices and regularly use the internet) identified all five opinion statements correctly versus 21% of those who are not as technologically savvy. And though political awareness and digital savviness are related to education in predictable ways, these relationships persist even when accounting for an individual’s education level."

http://www.journalism.org/2018/06/18/distinguishing-between-factual-and-opinion-statements-in-the-news/