Now confirmation bias surfaces again, with some readers accusing News24 of being biased against white people. Furthermore, the reader makes allegations about the accused being a black person who raped a white student. We all are in one way or another conflicted by confirmation bias but it becomes dangerous and unacceptable when this is reflected in our attitudes about race. Confirmation bias is important because it may lead people to hold strongly to false beliefs or to give more weight to information that supports their beliefs than is warranted by the evidence. The media's role is also to avoid their own confirmation bias by reporting news accurately, truthfully, and fairly, as the South African Press Code requires.

Source: News 24 June 09, 2022 08:01 UTC