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Which is easier to fake today, a photograph or a video call with your boss? Neither is hard anymore. A finance worker in Hong Kong learned that after wiring about $25 million to colleagues who existed only as software, and millions of ordinary people have passed along a striking picture or an angry headline that was never true. Nobody is too clever for this. The tricks work on attention, emotion and trust, and everyone has all three.
Information hygiene treats truth as a matter of daily habit, a little like washing your hands before dinner. It draws on what researchers have learned about why falsehood outruns accuracy, how feeds and search engines decide what reaches you, how professional fact-checkers size up a source in under a minute, and why a correction offered with respect beats one delivered with scorn. The point is not to doubt everything. It is to know when to slow down, how to check, and how to help the people around you do the same.
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