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Home ＞ How to distinguish hoax information Information literacyHow to distinguish hoax information＜Case 1＞ Toilet paper was gone!? 
In February 2020, a rumor that toilet paper will be lost due to the Corona virus disaster was spread on the Internet. A person who believed in it bought up the toilet papers, which caused a commotion because the stores ran out of toilet paper for a while.
＜Case 2＞ A lion ran away from the zoo!? 
On April 14, 2016, during the Kumamoto earthquake, there was a person who posted on Twitter that a lion ran away from the zoo. Many people retweeted, this made people uneasy, and the phone at the zoo office didn't stop ringing. The act of tweeting information that is not true or false was an obstruction of business at the zoo, and those who tweeted were arrested.
The cases above are impossible, and if you think it carefully, you will notice this. However, both were hoax information, which many people believed. When people are anxious, they tend to believe false information and the worst thing you can do is to send this out.
In order to distinguish hoax information, it is most important thing is to check References
〇Case 1 "February 2020 Toilet paper was gone"
・ Yahoo!JAPAN ニュース，「トイレットペーパーはなぜ消えたのか:みんなのことを考えることがあなたの家庭を救うことに」(Why Toilet Paper Disappeared: Thinking of everyone will save your family.)，2020/3/1，(https://news.yahoo.co.jp/byline/usuimafumi/20200301-00165509)，(accessed 2021/9/2) ・ 東大新聞オンライン，「トイレットペーパーなぜ消えた？新型コロナウイルス感染拡大での集合心理を分析①【社会心理学編】」(Why did the toilet paper disappear? Analyzing collective psychology in the spread of new coronaviruses ①【Social Psychology, ed.】)，2020/5/20，(https://www.todaishimbun.org/collectivepsycology_1_20200522)，(accessed 2021/9/2) 〇Case 2 "April 14th 2016 Kumamoto earthquake" ・ 東スポWeb，「熊本地震「ライオン脱走デマ」で逮捕！現地が迷惑した罪の大きさ」(Arrest for "lion escape hoax" in Kumamoto earthquake! The magnitude of the crime that annoyed the local people)，2016/7/21，(https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/social/568773/)，2016/7/21，(https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/social/568773/)，(accessed 2021/9/4) ・ HUFFPOST，「「ライオン逃げた」熊本地震のデマ情報を拡散した疑い 20歳男を逮捕」(Why did the toilet paper disappear? Analyzing collective psychology in the spread of new coronaviruses ①【Social Psychology, ed.】)，2016/7/21，(https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/2016/07/20/lion-escape_n_11081056.html)，(accessed 2021/9/5) |
Home ＞ How to distinguish hoax information
＜Case 1＞
Toilet paper was gone!?
＜Case 2＞
A lion ran away from the zoo!?
In order to distinguish hoax information, it is most important thing is to check
Please look at official website and determine if it's correct information!
Don't believe it right away but learn the habit of questioning things (
