Tucker Hammers CA. State Rep: Shouldn’t You Be More Concerned About Math Skills Rather than Fake News?

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CARSON: "What that means to be false. Does that mean that the content on the site is false if you don’t like the domain name? What is false mean?"
GOMEZ: "One of the things, it’s not about — false mean sometimes web sites give you a little bit of real information, fake information, and they kind of blur it all together. I know Fox News would never do that. You try to give them the real facts just like every other news station according to their mission. Right? We are not here to basically say that this is automatically fake news, we want people to look at every piece of information they are reading online, that they should have been doing for a long time. With a critical eye. And start asking more questions. It’s a something I should believe, is it a reputable source? To the fax back up the claims?"
CARSON: "I guess a lot of questions come to mind. Why don’t they do that? Who are you to make that decision? You keep dodging the core question, how do you know what is fake and what is real? That is the center of this. It is the fake news bill. What is fake news? I’m not getting it from what you decide. For example, BuzzFeed, which is a big web site, just released a 35 page dossier reportedly on Donald Trump. It reportedly from Russia. Is that fake or real in your judgment?"
GOMEZ: "One of the things I try to do is look at every story with a critical eye. And then I try to do more research on it. I don’t automatically believe everything I read. But I do want to make sure that we kind of break it apart. I want our students to be prepared. This is a digital age where we get more of our information through online and social media resources than we do from books and newspapers. In the past, we didn’t have to question books and newspapers but people think just because they read it online, they believe it is real. That is a big problem."