Kitchener teen wins media award for debunking misinformation

What I'm doing is, I'm not doing any like reverse image search or things like that because I'm focusing more on videos and I do some research into the creators themselves. So I look into their bios, I search up whatever kind of information I can find about them online. If their full names are listed, what type of specialists they claim to be and I try my best to kind of engineer the solution to that. So whether it's like, for example, if they claim to be a medical professional, there's lists online that list like specific physicians in different field. And that's pretty easy to find. And so I just do a thorough search on that. And then I compare the results that I found to what science is saying. So, for example, in the case of the apricot seeds, I was looking at a paper that was published by the Canadian Medical Association where they introduced a new regulation where they were actually banning the consumption of apricot seeds because of the fact that consuming too much can be poisonous. And so finding scientific journals online and just seeing what they have to say and comparing across. Wow. And the videos you make are geared to younger audiences. What kind of feedback do you get from your friends or your classmates or just out there in the world? Yeah, I'm always open to feedback, especially when I go to school and a lot of my friends have seen the videos that I've made. And so the thing that I'm often getting is they're often asking, how can we make this more easier? like how can we adjust the way that we view content online so that it isn't like a big shift and so my response to that is always like it's just it's through taking small steps so introducing small things um from time to time because when you're uh when you're scrolling online you just honestly need to be more conscious and more aware of the fact that there is misinformation and you can't trust everything that you see and just simply being aware of the situation makes a greater difference.