Experts say to be vigilant when browsing social media platforms and to think before you post.
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — The Israel-Hamas War is a complex issue for someone to wrap their head around.And experts say it can add fuel to the fire. Social media has been proving it true this week.
Ask yourself: is this person reputable, and what is their level of knowledge on the subject to be able to make these claims? "I found an inverse relationship between the confidence with which someone speaks or voices their opinion and their actual knowledge and understanding of a conflict," said Yael Warshel, professor of communications at Pennsylvania State University."There's a lot of grey areas, and I think it's about being humble as much as you can to recognize there's no way we can know everything. It's just not cognitively possible.
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