Fake News - Fake News & Fact Checking - Research Guides at Sonoma State University
1. It can't be verified A fake news article may or may not have links in it tracing its sources; if it dos, these links may not lead to articles outside of the site's domain or may not contain information pertinent to the article topic. 2. Fake news appeals to emotion Fake news plays on your feelings - it makes you angry or happy or scared. 3. Most authors aren't journalists, but paid-trolls. 4. If you look up the main idea of a fake news article, you might not find any other news outlet (real or not) reporting on the issue. 5. Did the article come from abcnews.com.co? Source: Indiana University
Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world
We were guaranteed a free press, We were not guaranteed a neutral or a true press. We can celebrate the journalistic freedom to publish without interference from the state. We can also celebrate our freedom to share multiple stories through multiple lenses. But it has always been up to the reader or viewer to make the reliability and credibility decisions. News literacy is complicated. Professional journalists themselves face new practical and ethical challenges relating to anonymity, privacy and safety, as well as reliability in their attempts to verify sources of breaking news from social media and user-generated content in all media formats. Even news that is vetted by editors and publishers sometimes emerges from that process a bit processed, perhaps leaning in a particular direction. And word choice itself is connected to truth. On news literacy In its glossary, Stony Brook University’s Center for News Literacy defines news literacy as: Our kids need new types of filters. Fake news
Quiz: How well can you tell factual from opinion statements?
Can you tell the difference between factual and opinion news statements? Test your ability to classify 10 news statements as either factual or opinion. Then see how you did in comparison with a nationally representative group of 5,035 randomly selected U.S. adults surveyed online between February 22 and March 4, 2018. The analysis of the findings from the study can be found in the full report, "Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News."
Fight The Fake: Get the what-why-and-how resource list
Today’s students must learn to filter through the excess of information to find the facts, which is often easier said than done. October Media Literacy Challenge :: Week 1 Are you a superhero of fake-fighting, or do you need a few sessions of media literacy boot camp? As the United States ramps up for midterm elections, we’re giving educators the tools they need to elevate students’ news and media literacy skills with the Britannica Digital Learning October Media Literacy Challenge. Every Monday in October, we’ll share new resources and activities that support media literacy skills development in students. RSVP on Facebook to get publish alerts! Lay the foundation and the need for media literacy. Fake news is a hot topic in the world of education, and for good reason. Looking at some key terms can help educators as they prepare to broach the topic of fake news with students. The term fake news refers to sources that are sharing distorted, fabricated, inaccurate, or misleading information.
5 Research Tools Students Often Overlook
When they're given a research assignment most students immediately turn to Google to start their research. Unfortunately, many students don't recognize that they are limiting their research efforts by not going beyond Google.com to search. Here are five research tools that I introduce to students to get them to go beyond using Google.com. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science
A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science Click to enlarge A brief detour from chemistry, branching out into science in general today. This graphic looks at the different factors that can contribute towards ‘bad’ science – it was inspired by the research I carried out for the recent aluminium chlorohydrate graphic, where many articles linked the compound to causing breast cancer, referencing scientific research which drew questionable conclusions from their results. The vast majority of people will get their science news from online news site articles, and rarely delve into the research that the article is based on. EDIT: Updated to version 2! EDIT 2 (April 2015): Update to version 3, taking into account a range of feedback and also sprucing up the design a little. Support Compound Interest on Patreon for post previews and more! The graphic in this article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Like this: Like Loading...
First Draft News
These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes). The reporting is factual and usually sourced. These are the most credible media sources. See all Least Biased Sources. Factual Reporting: HIGHCountry: USAWorld Press Freedom Rank: USA 48/180 Notes: First Draft News was launched by the First Draft Coalition in 2015. First Draft News features training resources and a resource catalog for journalist industry news. Source:
How To Spot Fake News
Critical thinking is a key skill in media and information literacy, and the mission of libraries is to educate and advocate its importance. Discussions about fake news has led to a new focus on media literacy more broadly, and the role of libraries and other education institutions in providing this. When Oxford Dictionaries announced post-truth was Word of the Year 2016, we as librarians realise action is needed to educate and advocate for critical thinking – a crucial skill when navigating the information society. IFLA has made this infographic with eight simple steps (based on FactCheck.org’s 2016 article How to Spot Fake News) to discover the verifiability of a given news-piece in front of you. Download, print, translate, and share – at home, at your library, in your local community, and on social media networks. The more we crowdsource our wisdom, the wiser the world becomes. Download the infographic Translations
