CNN News: 敢于怀疑一切事物

Made up false stories are polluting people`s Facebook timelines and Twitter streams.

捏造的假消息在污染人们的脸谱时间表以及推特信息流

And getting worse. Even President Obama is raising the alarm.

事情愈发严重。甚至奥巴马总统都发出了警报。

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If we are not serious about facts and what`s true and what`s not -- then, we have problems.

美国总统奥巴马：如果我们不能严肃对待事实以及事实的真假，那么我们就要面临问题了。

STELTER: These problems are not brand new, but they`re becoming a lot more prevalent.

记者：这些问题并不是新的问题，但是它们变得愈发普遍了。

PROFESSOR DAN GILLMOR, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: We have an epidemic of false information racing around using social networks as the accelerator.

亚利桑那州立大学教授：我们都有一个普遍的错误，那就是使用社交网络作为错误信息的加速器。

STELTER: Now, staffers at social media giants are doing some soul- searching.

记者：现在，员工在巨头社交媒体正在做的事情，就是搜索。

These fake sites are easy to set up and profitable for the creators. Every time we click and share, they make more money, but we are worse off.

很容易创建一些虚假网站，然后给网站创建者带来利润。每一次我们点击分享信息，这些虚假网站就在盈利，而我们呢是在挥霍。

Now, Facebook and Google are banning fake sites from making money off their ad networks. It`s a first effort to choke off some of the revenue.

现在脸谱网和谷歌正在禁止虚假网站利用广告平台盈利。这是初步扼杀这些非法收入。

The bigger challenge? Providing more detection tools without threatening free speech.

更大的挑战?提供更多的检测工具但并不威胁言论自由。

GILLMOR: Suddenly, they have these, I think, these social, societal duties to help us not be faked out all the time. And yet, I don`t want the terms of service of one company or two or three companies to have more influence than the First Amendment.

吉尔摩：突然，他们有了这些举措，我觉得，这些社会、社交责任帮助我们不被伪造。我不希望一个或两个或三个公司的服务条款的影响超过《美国宪法第一修正案》。

STELTER: The root problem is that some people want to believe the lies. That`s why the responsibility isn`t just Facebook or Google or Twitter`s.

记者：问题的根本在于有些人愿意相信这些谎言。这就是为什么责任不仅仅是在于脸谱、谷歌或者推特了。

We all have to get a little smarter about what we share.

对于我们分享的东西，我们应该更明智些。

GILLMOR: We have to be relentlessly skeptical of absolutely everything.

吉尔摩：我们必须毫不留情地怀疑一切事物。

We have to go outside of our personal comfort zones, and read and watch and listen to things that are bound to make our blood boil.

我们必须走出个人的舒适地带，去品读、观看、倾听一些能让我们热血沸腾的事物。